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Subject: Re: Comments in Makefile for POSIX W_UID and W_GID
From: Chan Wilson <cwilson @ slurp . neu . sgi . com>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 11:46:12 +0100
To: Maire Jones <Maire . Jones @ cs . tcd . ie>
Cc: majordomo-workers @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Nov 1995 10:42:08 GMT." <199511161041.CAA26913@miles.greatcircle.com>

> Having just tried to install Majordomo, on a POSIX compliant machine,
> I took the defaults for W_UID and W_GID.  This was not a good idea in
> our case because I had set up  majordom with different uid and gid.
> 
> It wasn't obvious from the comments in the Makefile that W_UID and W_GID
> should be set to the UID and GID of majordom.
> 
> Maybe in the next release you could add a comment in the POSIX section
> in the Makefile which would make it clear what W_UID and W_GID should
> be.

I've reworded and reorganized the Makefile for 1.94.   I'll have a new
test (beta) version out soon.

--Chan


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