I don't know if this has been reported or not, but sence I wasted
several hours because of it yesterday, I suppose that I should
warn others of the problem I ran into.
I was upgrading my office machine to RedHat Linux 7.1, which
does not contain a version of majordomo so I snarfed from
rpmfind a copy of majordomo-1.94.4-8.i386.rpm, which installed
just fine.
After installing it, however, although mail sent to my lists would
be forwarded, majordomo itself could not find the lists and my
mail address was incorrect. The problem was that the particular
rpm had placed---I am tempted to say hidden---the majordomo.cf
file in /etc/majordomo.cf. I had copied over my old majordomo.cf
file to /usr/lib/majordomo where the other files were located,
including the sample majordom.cf file, and that is the file that
I thought was being used by majordomo. I spent a lot of time
trying to figure out what was wrong with my /etc/aliases file
before I spotted the source of the problem and made the needed
changes to the /etc/majordom.cf file, which originaly thought
that the lists directory was off in /var somewhere.
That was sort of stupid of me, but I thought I should warn others
of the problem. Wouldn't it be nice if RPM's contained a file
warning where they put things---especially configuration files?
--
Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
EMAIL: junger@samsara.law.cwru.edu URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu
NOTE: junger@pdj2-ra.f-remote.cwru.edu no longer exists
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