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Subject: Re: Additional info
From: Daniel Liston <dliston @ netscape . com>
Organization: Netscape Communications Corp.
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 01:54:36 -0500
To: Gilbert Sebenste <sebenste @ weather . admin . niu . edu>
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110172306050.12683-100000@weather.admin.niu.edu>

Hi Gilbert,

Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Daniel Liston wrote:
> 
> > <sarcasm>I get errors in DOS when I type dri instead of dir too.</sarcasm>
> 
> heh. Long day. :-)

Yeah, you could say that...
> 
> > How are you creating groups?  What is the error message you are getting?

I will assUme you are creating groups by touching a filename in all lowercase
letters in the majordomo/lists directory as the majordomo user, and creating
the appropriate aliases as root.
> 
> Well, I changed the lists directory to permission 775, as per Marco
> Guevara's suggestion (thank you, Marco!). Now, I'm getting the dreaded
> "wrapper unavailable to use sendmail" due to smrsh, even though I have a
> soft link to wrapper from /etc/smrsh.

Uhmmm, `cd /etc/smrsh; ln -s /majordomo/wrapper`?
/majordomo/wrapper is root:majordomo and 4755?
> 
> > Where is the error message coming from?
> 
> Root.
> 
> >  What does the majordomo Log file
> > say?
> 
> 0 length file. I blew Majordomo away, started over, so this is no longer
> working either. It has a file permission of 666 on it.

The Log file should be recreated with proper permission just by running
the `wrapper config-test`.
> 
> >  What does the (sendmail?) maillog say?  What OS, MTA, version of
> > majordomo are you running?

MTA is mail transport agent.  (program that listens for SMTP on port 25)
Default RedHat uses sendmail.
> 
> Linux RH 7.1 (pardon my ignorance...MTA?), and 1.94.5.
> And no problem about the sarcasm. i'm getting that way about majordomo
> now! :-(
>



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