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Subject: Re: UID Problems
From: Daniel Liston <dliston @ sonny . org>
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 16:46:12 -0600
To: Thomas Kernes <tkernes @ buckwestern . com>
Cc: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <BDA16607.28A70%tkernes@buckwestern.com>
References: <BDA16607.28A70%tkernes@buckwestern.com>
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Here is what "I" do with majordomo.cf, but I have a dedicated server
for my domain. (if that matters)

as the root user,
ln -s /usr/lib/majordomo/majordomo.cf /etc/majordomo.cf

Then you can leave the original owned by majordomo:majordomo.

Dan Liston

Thomas Kernes wrote:

> I realize this has been asked several times, but I was searching through the
> archives and did not find an effective answer.
> 
> I am on FreeBSD 4.7 running Perl 5.8.4 and I am getting this error when
> running the wrapper:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------- Config-test for Majordomo ----------------
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> --------------------- Obvious things: ---------------------
> ------------------ environment variables ------------------
>    HOME=/usr/local/majordomo
>    LOGNAME=xxx
>    MAJORDOMO_CF=/usr/local/majordomo/majordomo.cf
>    PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
>    SHELL=/bin/sh
>    USER=xxx
> --------------------- euid/egid checks ---------------------
>    effective user  = xxx
>    effective group = xxx
> ---------------------- uid/gid checks ----------------------
>    real      user  = xxx
>    real      group = xxx
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>         Non obvious things that cause headaches:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Config file "/usr/local/majordomo/majordomo.cf" not owned by effective UID.
> 
> 
> I have all of the user/group permissions set to majordom/majordom and I am
> still having these problems.  I tried changing it to root just to see what
> would happen and no go there as well.
> 
> Any advice would be appreciated.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Thomas Kernes
> 
> 


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