userid numeric value problem

[Steve Magee <smagee @ arb . ca . gov>]

I have Majordomo working on our server.  No problems.
To move it to another machine, I have tar'd the Majordomo directory,
the /etc/sendmail, /etc/aliases files and moved them to another server.

I have untar'd them and set userid, group and permission to exactly
as they are on from the machine they came from.  I also change the
$whereami value to reflect the new machine in majordomo.cf.  I have
done this before with success.  The difference now is the /etc/passwd
& /etc/group have different numeric values for "majordomo" (userid)
then from the machine they came from.   I changed the passwd &
group to now reflex the same  userid numeric value.  All works fine.

Would anybody know why Majordomo "requires" the same userid
numeric value?

I know when installing, you are required to enter the numberic value of
the userid and usergroup.  Are these values hidden and must remain
constance from machine to machine?

Here is the error message I recevied when the userid numeric values were

different.

MAJORDOMO ABORT (mj_majordomo)!!

While running with an effective uid of 400 and an effective gid of 2 12,

Majordomo ran into the following problems:
Unable to write to log file, check permissions on /app/major/Log

Thanks,
Steve Magee