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Subject: Re: FW: Digest Question
From: Dan Liston <dliston @ sonny . org>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 01:08:32 -0600
To: "'Majordomo Users'" <majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com>
References: <40F39C234319D611BCCB00B0D0D1CB33370798@ENETSLMAILI>


aliasing/forwarding is your clue.  Your /etc/aliases are not posted, so 
I can only say to look there.

Dan Liston

Piyal Nanayakkara wrote:
> 
> Hi Majordomo Folks;
> 
> Although I changed the line as
> kmsig-digest-outgoing: :include:/usr/majordomo-1.94.5/lists/kmsig-digest
> 
> I encountered following error
> ****************************************************************************
> The original message was received at Mon, 9 Sep 2002 11:15:58 +0600
> from majordomo@localhost
> 
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> kmsig-digest-outgoing
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> Message delivered to mailing list kmsig-digest-outgoing
> 554 5.4.6 kmsig-digest-outgoing... aliasing/forwarding loop broken
> ****************************************************************************
> 
> Any idea how to overcome the error?
> 
> Thanks in Advance
> 
> Piyal
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Liston [mailto:dliston@sonny.org]
> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 7:53 PM
> To: Piyal Nanayakkara; Majordomo-Users
> Subject: Re: FW: Digest Question
> 
> This is starting to feel like a test, and the rest of majordomo-users
> are not allowed to participate.  Please address your questions to the
> list rather than to me directly and everyone can benefit both from your
> questions and my replies.  Plus you can get help from over a thousand
> people instead of just one.
> 
> It would be by guess with your current question that your alias for
> the kmsig-digest-outgoing is not ":include:"ing your membership file.
> The aliases that use :include: should be naming the file that holds
> all the email addresses for your list.
> It should look like this;
> 
> kmsig-digest-outgoing: :include:/usr/majordomo-1.94.5/lists/kmsig-digest
> 
> The /usr/majordomo-1.94.5/mail/digest/kmsig-digest is a directory
> that holds the individual messages that are to be digestified into
> a single outgoing message.
> 
> Dan Liston
> 
> Piyal Nanayakkara wrote:
> > Hi Daniel
> >
> > Thanks for the Help and sorry for the delay in replying.
> >
> > Actually /usr/majordomo-1.94.5/mail/digest folder had "Group Writable"
> > permission.
> > So I did the changes u suggested.(ie removed "Group Writable" permission
> for
> > /usr/majordomo-1.94.5/mail/digest folder.)
> >
> > After doing this I posted a PDF file (300 kB) and got following error:
> > Ps: Only the List owner get this error message
> >
> > Pls help me to resolve this.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Piyal
> >
> > Error Follows:
> >
> >
> ****************************************************************************
> > The original message was received at Fri, 6 Sep 2002 17:00:15 +0600
> > from majordomo@localhost
> >
> >    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > :include:/usr/majordomo-1.94.5/mail/digest/kmsig-digest
> >     (expanded from: kmsig-digest-outgoing)
> >
> >    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > 550 5.2.4 :include:/usr/majordomo-1.94.5/mail/digest/kmsig-digest ...
> Cannot
> > open /usr/majordomo-1.94.5/mail/digest/kmsig-digest: Regular files only
> > Message delivered to mailing list kmsig-digest-outgoing
> >
> >
> ****************************************************************************
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel Liston [mailto:dliston@sonny.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 12:54 AM
> > To: Piyal Nanayakkara
> > Subject: Re: Digest Question
> >
> >
> >
> > This error is from sendmail.  Check the permissions on /, /usr,
> > /usr/majordomo-1.94.5, /usr/majordomo-1.94.5/mail, and
> > /usr/majordomo-1.94.5/mail/digest to make sure none of these have
> > "Group writable" permissions.  Sendmail 8.9.x and higher will not
> > allow permissions loose enough to allow group writes.  You either
> > have to remove the group permissions or change your sendmail.cf so
> > that the permissions are allowed.
> >
> > Dan Liston
> >
> > Piyal Nanayakkara wrote:
> >
> >>I encountered the following error. Do u have any idea to rectify this?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> ****************************************************************************
> >
> >>The original message was received at Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:21:51 +0600
> >>from majordomo@localhost
> >>
> >>   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> >>:include:/usr/majordomo-1.94.5/mail/digest/os-digest
> >>    (expanded from: os-digest-outgoing)
> >>
> >>   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> >>550 5.2.4 :include:/usr/majordomo-1.94.5/mail/digest/os-digest
> >>... Cannot open /usr/majordomo-1.94.5/mail/digest/os-digest: Group
> >
> > writable
> >
> >>directory
> >>Message delivered to mailing list os-digest-outgoing
> >>
> >
> >
> ****************************************************************************
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>Think about the process it takes to get a message into the archive.
> >>First sendmail has the message and routes it through virtusertable,
> >>aliases, and .forward files.
> >>Via the aliases, the archive2.pl script gets the message and tacks it
> >>onto a file with the listname.yyyymm in the
> >
> >  > $filedir/$list$filedir_suffix directory.  These are defined in
> >
> >>majordomo.cf.
> >>
> >>Once these message archive files exist, is when hypermail can do it's
> >>own thing.  I have not used it for 5 or 6 years, but it has to build
> >
> >  > index and web pages from the archive file.  I am not sure if the
> >  > archive itself may be copied, if so, unwanted messages would need to be
> >
> >>removed from that file too.  After the source files are cleaned up is
> >>when you can clean up the HTML pages and/or any hypermail work files.
> >>
> >>Perhaps someone on the list can give you more hypermail details.  I
> >>would not want to make any assumptions that would end up doing you more
> >
> >  > harm than good.
> >
> >>>I removed the unwanted messages from the particular file but still the
> >>>unwanted messages appear in the html pages. So are there any other files
> >>>to be deleted?
> >>>
> >>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>Yes, you must remove the messages from the actual archive, not just
> >>>the web page that hypermail creates from the archive.
> >>>
> >>>/usr/majordomo-1.94.5/lists/j2ee.archive/j2ee.2002
> >>>or something similar would be my initial guess.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Thanks for the feedback on the Digest Issues I had
> >>>>I have a new question
> >>>>I have sent several test postings to a List and I want remove those
> Items
> >>>
> >
> >>>>from the List. Currently I use Hypermail as the Web UI for List Archive.
> >>>
> >>>>Although I removed  them from html file (index.htm,subject.html) they
> >>>>appear again when hypermail is executed.
> >>>>
> >>>>Any idea how to permanently remove those test postings?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>>I have installed majordomo on Red Hat Linux 7 with send mail 8.11.
> >>>>Everything works fine except Digested Lists.
> >>>>
> >>>>When I try to subscribe to a Digested List;
> >>>>using subscribe j2ee-digest
> >>>>
> >>>>I get the reply as
> >>>>**** subscribe: unknown list 'j2ee-digest'.
> >>>>
> >>>>In the majordomo.cf file I have relevant entries as follows:
> >>>>$digest_work_dir = "/usr/majordomo-1.94.5/mail/digest";
> >>>>$filedir = "/usr/majordomo-1.94.5/lists";
> >>>>$filedir_suffix = ".archive";
> >>>>
> >>>>And I have created two folders for Digests namely
> >>>>/usr/majordomo-1.94.5/mail/digest/j2ee-digest
> >>>>/usr/majordomo-1.94.5/lists/j2ee-digest.archive
> >>>>
> >>>>I could see the digest files  for each digested lists in
> $digest_work_dir
> >>>>and archived version
> >>>>of digest in $filedir.
> >>>>Eg: /usr/majordomo-1.94.5/mail/digest/j2ee-digest/001
> >>>>
> >>>>So why I can't subscribe to digested Lists?
> >>>>
> >>>>Please help me to resolve this.
> >>>
> >




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