The numbers for uid/gid are compiled into "wrapper". If you want to
use different numbers on a different machine, you must recompile the
wrapper.
Dan Liston
Steve Magee wrote:
>
> 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
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