Re: Mj2 now maintains your aliases

[Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu>]

>>>>> "WRD" == "William R Dickson <-- System Administration" <wdickson@nwnexus.net>> writes:

WRD> newaliases: cannot open
WRD> /usr/local/libexec/majordomo2/lists/ALIASES/awenet.com: Permission
WRD> denied

root can't open a file?  Huh?  Is your sendmail not setuid root?

Am I wrong in thinking that Sendmail should be able to read any file?  On
my systems, the databases that are created are owned by root.  Honestly we
can make that directory owned by any user and give it and the files within
it any permissions we want, but both Majordomo and Sendmail have to create
files in there.  Newer Sendmails allow 755/644 as the most permissive
permissions allowable, so if Sendmail doesn't run as root then it just
won't work.

 - J<