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Subject: Re: can't open log & can't send to lists
From: Daniel Liston <dliston @ sonny . org>
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 01:31:01 -0600
To: Daniel Tatone <dtatone @ edgeeffect . com>
Cc: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
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User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

Can I assume you got started by using the rpm bundle instead of the tarball?
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/6.1/en/powertools/i386/majordomo-1.94.5-2.i386.rpm

Basically, sendmail is complaining that you left one of your directories
in the /var/lib/majordomo/lists tree as _group writable_.  You have to
remove the group bit, or change sendmail's security with a dontblamesendmail
setting in the sendmail.cf to allow for it.

It is easiest to
chmod -R g-w /var/lib/majordomo
chmod g-w /var/lib
chmod g-w /var
chmoe g-w /

As for your log file issue, make sure it is owned by majordomo and
writable by the owner.  Also make sure you used the same upper/lower
case in the name of the log file as was used to define that name
in the majordomo.cf file.

Have you executed './wrapper config-test' yet?  What did that say?

Dan Liston

Daniel Tatone wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm running Majordomo ver.1.94.4 on Redhat Linux 7.3.
> 
> And I've got two issues:
> 
> 1. whenever a user sends a command to majordomo, majordomo-owner (myself)
> gets a message stating:
>     MAJORDOMO NOTICE: Can't open log
>     Why is this and how do I correct it?
> 
> Users are able to subscribe properly... but...
> 
> 2.When a user sends a message to the list, it does not get delivered and the
> majordomo-owner gets the following message:
> 
>        ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> :include:/var/lib/majordomo/lists/listname
>     (expanded from: <listname@domain.com>)
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 550 5.2.4 :include:/var/lib/majordomo/lists/listname... Cannot open
> /var/lib/majordomo/lists/listname: Group writable directory
> Message delivered to mailing list <listname@domain.com>
> 
>     Why is this and how do I correct it?
> 
> I followed the INSTALL, NEWLIST, README, and FAQ docs. and the archives are
> not searchable so I haven't found a similar situation online...
> aliases, virtualuser tables, conf files, permissions seem to be all right...
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> thanks
> 
> --
> Dan
> 




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