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Subject: Re: Please I need help! lists thinks I have no lists!
From: dliston @ netscape . com (Dan Liston)
Organization: iPlanet eCommerce Solutions, A Sun-Netscape Alliance
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 09:02:20 -0600
To: "Steven W. Orr" <steveo @ syslang . net>
Cc: Majordomo Users <majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.40.0111090905340.16929-100000@syslang.syslang.net>

Does your majordomo process "any" commands?  Can you send a "help"
command and get a response?  If not, there is most likely an error
with your aliases file.  Are your lists just using majordomo to
manager adding and removing of addresses to your list, or do you
use resend to also control them?

Dan Liston

"Steven W. Orr" wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Daniel Liston wrote:
> 
> =>You are using the rpm install of majordomo.  You need to remove the
> =>majordom user from /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow and /etc/group. 503
> The three files above are all correct. Good thought though.
> 
> =>
> =>You might be expecting your lists to be found in /home/majordomo/lists
> =>but the rpm is looking in /var/lib/majordomo/lists for them.
> I don't think that's the problem, but I don't understand the role of
> /var/lib/majordomo vs. ~majordomo which is /usr/lib/majordomo. Either way,
> the files that are there seem fine.
> =>
> =>Other possibility, you have enabled the noadvertise option in all of
> =>your listname.config files.  These lists will not show up in a lists
> =>command unless the address you are sending the command from is already
> =>a member of the lists.
> 
> Interesting. The advertise and noadvertise variables are set with the
> defaults:
> advertise           <<  END
> 
> END
> noadvertise         <<  END
> 
> END
> 
> But this still doesn't explain why the list owner (me) can't add or delete
> users.
> 
> I'm open to any more ideas.  Please? :-(
> 
> =>
> =>Dan Liston
> =>
> =>"Steven W. Orr" wrote:
> =>>
> =>> Somehow I'm in a state where I can send mail to my lists, but I can't
> =>> administer them. If I send a lists command, it returns an empty list. (I
> =>> have three lists.) I have no idea how I got into this.
> =>>
> =>> Here's the relevant data:
> =>>
> =>> Red Hat Linux 7.2
> =>>
> =>> bash-2.05# rpm -q majordomo
> =>> majordomo-1.94.5-2
> =>>
> =>> sendmail is 8.11.6
> =>>
> =>> bash-2.05# grep -i majordomo /etc/passwd
> =>> majordom:x:503:503:MajorDomo:/home/majordomo:/bin/bash
> =>> majordomo:x:91:91:Majordomo List Manager:/usr/lib/majordomo:/bin/bash
> =>> bash-2.05#
> =>>
> =>> For starters, I don't know why I had two entries.  So I deleted the entire
> =>> majordomo package (after saving my lists directory) and reinstalled. I'm
> =>> convinced that all of the permissions and ownerships are correct.
> =>>
> =>> I ran
> =>> ./wrapper config-test
> =>> and got no problems.
> =>>
> =>> My problem is that if I send a lists message, I get an empty list of lists
> =>> back. There should be three lists: frambors, man-bytes-dog, and mjtest.
> =>> (Feel free to try it.)
> =>>
> =>> I don't have a clue what else to do. Can someone please point me? Please
> =>> hear my desperation :-(
> =>>
> =>> TIA
> =>>
> =>> --
> =>> -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have -
> =>> -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ
> =>> -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all-
> =>> -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo@syslang.net
> =>
> 
> --
> -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have -
> -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ
> -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all-
> -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo@syslang.net


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