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Subject: FW: aliasing/forwarding loop broken
From: "Michael R. Welch" <mrwelch @ free-pctech-support . com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:15:25 -0700
To: "Majordomo-users" <Majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael R. Welch [mailto:mrwelch@free-pctech-support.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 11:03 AM
To: Daniel Liston
Subject: RE: aliasing/forwarding loop broken


Daniel,

I seem to have cleared up the errors, at least with majordomo. My host
provider origionally installed Majordomo files and folders with 777
permissions. The only thing I couldn't get to work was sending mail to the
list. This includes MajorCool. Reducing the permissions on the permissions
to 755 (what you suggested) makes it so the majorcool interface doesnt load.
So I changed /majordomo permissions to 775 and at least the interface loads
and majordomo still is working.

This is the error I get when I try to see what lists my 1 loney lest member
is subscribed to:

: ABORT
shlock: '/majordomo' is not writable by UID 1000 GID 33

This suggests a permissions error like MajorCool is not part of the approved
group to me with my limited knowlege of permissions.

As I recall the only time MajorCool fully worked is if the entire /majorcool
tree had permissions set to 777, which is the way I found this mess.

any ideas?

Michael


-----Original Message-----
From: majordomo-users-owner@GreatCircle.COM
[mailto:majordomo-users-owner@GreatCircle.COM]On Behalf Of Daniel Liston
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 10:49 PM
To: Michael R. Welch
Cc: Majordomo-users
Subject: Re: aliasing/forwarding loop broken


Michael,

This means a directory in the tree to your list has group writable
permission enabled.  As root, do this;

cd /
chmod -R go-w majordomo

Dan Liston

"Michael R. Welch" wrote:
>
> What does this indicate?
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 550 :include:/majordomo/lists/free-pctech-news
> .. Cannot open /majordomo/lists/free-pctech-news: World writable directory
> Message delivered to mailing list
<free-pctech-news@free-pctech-support.com>
> 554 <free-pctech-news@free-pctech-support.com>... aliasing/forwarding loop
> broken



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