Daniel,
Thanks for the great help. The pipe symbols solved the problem and the
whole thing started working. Now I have five "real" lists to get working.
Richard Albrecht
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Liston" <dliston@netscape.com>
To: "Richard Albrecht" <ralbrech@earthlink.com>
Cc: "Majordomo List" <majordomo-users@GreatCircle.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 1:33 AM
Subject: Re: Digest Problems
> Richard,
>
> Well, either I have a typo in my "cookbook", or you just missed some "|"
> symbols in your aliases. Every reference to /pathto/majordomo/wrapper
> should have a | in front of it. "|/pathto/majordomo/wrapper ..."
>
> The following aliases are all missing this pipe symbol;
> test:
> test-request:
> test-archiver:
> test-digestify:
>
> Only the test-digest-request: alias is piping correctly.
> Secondly, the test-list: and test-digest-list: aliases are not called
> from any of the other aliases, and are not needed.
>
> Are you hosting these lists, or are these lists hosted for you?
> It makes a big difference in how your aliases are configured too.
>
> Hopefully, your nobody: alias points to /dev/null.
>
> Dan Liston
>
> Richard Albrecht wrote:
> >
> > To the list, and particularly to Daniel Liston:
> >
> > I am setting up several lists on a virtual server. So far, everything
is
> > functioning as expected. However, I am having no success in setting up
> > digests. Daniel, your recent "cookbook" is great, but I do not seem to
be
> > able to follow instructions properly.
> >
> > Specifically, when I send a message to the test list it is not posting.
> > Majordomo is coughing up an error, which is as follows:
> >
> > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > "/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper resend -l test test-outgoing,nobody"
> > (reason: can't create (user) output file)
> >
> > ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > Message delivered to mailing list < >
> > 550 5.0.0 "/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper resend -l test
> > test-outgoing,nobody"... Can't create output
> >
> > /*** end of error messages ***/
> >
> > After looking at everything many times, I feel that the error is in the
> > aliases file. The significant portions of the file are as follows:
> >
> > test: "/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper resend -l test test-outgoing,nobody"
> > test-outgoing:
> > :include:/usr/local/majordomo/Lists/test,test-archiver,test-digestify
> > test-request: "/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper majordomo -l test"
> > test-list:
> > :include:/usr/local/majordomo/Lists/test,test-archiver,test-digestify
> > test-archiver: "/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper archive2.pl -f
> > /usr/local/majordomo/archives/test/test -a -M"
> > test-digestify: "/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper digest -r -C -l
test-digest
> > test-digest-outgoing"
> > test-digest: test,
> > test-digest-list: :include:/usr/local/majordomo/Lists/test-digest
> > test-digest-request: "|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper majordomo -l
> > test-digest"
> > test-digest-outgoing:
> > :include:/usr/local/majordomo/Lists/test-digest,nobody
> >
> > /*** end of aliases file ***/
> >
> > I have double-checked all of the referenced directories and their
> > permissions. They are all present and have 755 permissions. The owner
of
> > majordomo owns the directories.
> >
> > I am convinced that I am overlooking something that is perfectly obvious
to
> > anyone who is not too close to the issues. Please, somebody, tell me
what
> > it is! Thanks in advance.
>
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