major majordomo problems

[Jerry Feldman]

The way we have it set up on BLU is that the lists directory and the 
mailing lists are owned by majordom with group majordom. The permissions 
are 664. The list config files are 660.
In your case I think you need to give comedy at least rw permission for the 
owner.
David Kramer wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, David Kramer wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Here's some scenes from last week's episode:
> > 
> > Red Hat 5.2 "everything server" 
> > 	+ (22GB hard drive + Red Hat 6.1) 
> > 	-> spiffy new "everything server".
> > 
> > Now:
> > 
> > Most everything I've tried to install has gone well.  One thing I'm stuck
> > on now is majordomo.  I just can't get that puppy to work.  The problem
> > may be sendmail, but I'm not sure.
> 
> 
> Just so you know I'm not the type to beg for help at the first sign of
> trouble and not do any legwork on my own, let me tell you I've been busy!
> 
> As I suspected, it has nothing to do with majordomo.  I tried some tests
> with aliases.  Whenever I reference an alias with an :include:, like
> 
> filetest:       :include:/maildir/comedy
> 
> I get one of two errors:
> [root at kramer /maildir]# ls -al
> total 3
> r--r-----   2 mail     daemon       1024 Feb 18 22:34 .
> drwxr-xr-x  25 root     root         1024 Feb 18 22:34 ..
> -r--r-----   1 mail     daemon         51 Feb 18 22:34 comedy
> [root at kramer /maildir]# sendmail -bv -v filetest at kramer.ne.mediaone.net
> filetest at kramer.ne.mediaone.net... aliased to :include:/maildir/comedy
> :include:/maildir/comedy... including file /maildir/comedy
> :include:/maildir/comedy... Cannot open /maildir/comedy: Permission denied
> filetest at kramer.ne.mediaone.net... aliasing/forwarding loop broken
> 
> or
> 
> [root at kramer /maildir]# ls -al
> total 3
> drwxrwxrwx   2 mail     daemon       1024 Feb 18 22:34 .
> drwxr-xr-x  25 root     root         1024 Feb 18 22:34 ..
> -rwxrwxrwx   1 mail     daemon         51 Feb 18 22:34 comedy
> [root at kramer /maildir]# sendmail -bv -v filetest at kramer.ne.mediaone.net
> filetest at kramer.ne.mediaone.net... aliased to :include:/maildir/comedy
> :include:/maildir/comedy... including file /maildir/comedy
> :include:/maildir/comedy... Cannot open /maildir/comedy: World writable 
> directory
> filetest at kramer.ne.mediaone.net... aliasing/forwarding loop broken
> 
> 
> Poking around sendmail.cf I found:
> # override file safeties - setting this option compromises system security
> # need to set this now for the sake of class files
> #O DontBlameSendmail=safe
> 
> I uncommented it and restarted sendmail, but it didn't seem to make a 
> difference.
> 
> Another thing I noticed is:
> # default UID (can be username or userid:groupid)
> O DefaultUser=8:12
> /etc/passwd: mail:x:8:12:mail:/var/spool/mail:
> /etc/group: mail:x:12:mail
> 
> I thought sendmail ran as group daemon.  I tried adding the user mail to
> the group daemon and restarting sendmail again, but still no joy.
> 
> Should I uninstall and reinstall sendmail, sendmail-cf, and sendmail-doc?
> 
> I'm still willing to compensate someone for helping me, though I didn't
> crash my server with the response level from my last email.
> 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org


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