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Subject: Re: can't write to archive file - more info
From: dliston @ netscape . com (Dan Liston)
Organization: iPlanet eCommerce Solutions, A Sun-Netscape Alliance
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 16:09:41 -0500
To: Jack Handy <jehandy @ bellatlantic . net>
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
References: <014701c0e37b$251e5000$6401a8c0@migkap.com>

The archive/listname directory and archive/listname/listname 
file would normally be owned by majordomo, not mail.  Perhaps 
that is why majordomo can not write there?  I am curious as 
to what your alias for sending messages to the archive file 
looks like too.

Dan Liston

Jack Handy wrote:
> 
> I left out some stuff I should have included in my last post so here it is.
> Also to clarify, this is not a problem with files in the listname.archive
> directory that I can access with a "get" command,  this problem concerns
> writing copies of all e-mails submitted to the list to the
> /usr/majordomo/archive directory.
> 
> Here are the rights on the directory structure
> 
> drwx-r-xr-x    majordom.daemon      /usr/majordomo
> -rwSr-xr-x      root.mail                    /usr/majordomo/wrapper
> drwx-r-xr-x    majordom.daemon      /usr/majordomo/archive
> drwx-r-xr-x    mail.mail                    /usr/majordomo/archive/listname
>  rw------        mail.mail
> /usr/majordomo/archive/listname/listname
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jack Handy" <jehandy@bellatlantic.net>
> To: <majordomo-users@greatcircle.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 10:20 PM
> Subject: can't write to archive file
> 
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I am running Majordomo 1.94.5 on Redhat 7.0 with Sendmail
> >
> > I cannot for the life of me figure it out but I always get errors when
> > e-mails are submitted to the list that follow the following format:
> >
> >    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > /usr/majordomo/archive/listname/listname
> >     (reason: can't create (user) output file)
> >     (expanded from: listname-archive)
> >
> >    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > Message delivered to mailing list listname-archive
> > Message delivered to mailing list listname-outgoing
> > 550 5.0.0 /usr/majordomo/archive/listname/listname... Can't create output
> >
> > I have tried all different manor of rights and ownership for this and it
> > still doesn't work.  Finally, last night I deleted the
> > /usr/majordomo/archive/listname/listname file and sent in a message.  The
> > listname file was created automatically and the text from the message was
> > inserted. Hallehlujah!  Until...  the next day, after having made no
> > changes, I got the same errors again.  Since then it hasn't worked.  So it
> > only worked for the one message.  Everything else works fine.
> >
> > Any Ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jack Handy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >



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