From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 25 09:56:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C59C937B401 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brightstar.ath.cx (mplsdslgw28poolA151.mpls.uswest.net [63.231.168.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD11044008 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:56:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listmail@brightstar.ath.cx) Received: from brightstar.ath.cx (localhost.ath.cx [127.0.0.1]) by brightstar.ath.cx (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h5PGtpwx003667 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 11:55:57 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from listmail@brightstar.ath.cx) Received: (from listmail@localhost) by brightstar.ath.cx (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id h5PGsAoZ003634 for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 11:54:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Gene Bomgardner Message-Id: <200306251654.h5PGsAoZ003634@brightstar.ath.cx> To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 11:54:09 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL98b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Directory permissions for majordomo X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:56:25 -0000 I've installed Majordomo from the ports and it runs using sendmail. I got an error message saying that resend couldn't write in /usr/local/majordomo/lists because it was 'wold writable'. When I restrict write privileges then I get 'permission denied' when it tries to create a temporary lock file in lists. the current directories look like this: total 280 -rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 0 Jun 25 10:27 Log drwxr-xr-x 2 majordom majordom 512 Jun 25 09:05 Tools -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 4539 Jun 25 09:05 aliases.majordomo lrwxr-xr-x 1 root majordom 11 Jun 25 09:05 archive -> archive2.pl -rwxr-xr-x 1 majordom majordom 5512 Jun 25 09:05 archive2.pl drwxr-xr-x 2 majordom majordom 512 Jun 25 09:05 bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 majordom majordom 3039 Jun 25 09:05 bounce-remind -rwxr-xr-x 1 majordom majordom 10867 Jun 25 09:05 config-test -rwxr-xr-x 1 majordom majordom 51130 Jun 25 09:05 config_parse.pl -rwxr-xr-x 1 majordom majordom 14516 Jun 25 09:05 digest drwxrwxr-x 3 majordom majordom 512 Jun 25 09:05 digests drwxrwxr-x 2 majordom majordom 512 Jun 25 09:05 doc drwxr--r-- 4 majordom majordom 1024 Jun 25 10:57 lists -rwxr-xr-x 1 majordom majordom 62498 Jun 25 09:05 majordomo -rw-r--r-- 1 majordom majordom 10497 Jun 25 09:11 majordomo.cf -rw-r--r-- 1 root majordom 10509 Jun 25 09:05 majordomo.cf~ -rwxr-xr-x 1 majordom majordom 24381 Jun 25 09:05 majordomo.pl -rwxr-xr-x 1 majordom majordom 137 Jun 25 09:05 majordomo_version.pl -rwxr-xr-x 1 majordom majordom 4036 Jun 25 09:05 request-answer -rwxr-xr-x 1 majordom majordom 30164 Jun 25 09:05 resend -rw-r--r-- 1 majordom majordom 10398 Jun 25 09:05 sample.cf -rwxr-xr-x 1 majordom majordom 8060 Jun 25 09:05 shlock.pl -rw-r--r-- 1 root majordom 0 Jun 25 11:21 t.txt drwx------ 2 majordom majordom 512 Jun 25 10:57 tmp -r-sr-x--- 1 majordom majordom 7326 Jun 25 09:05 wrapper ./lists -rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 379 Jun 25 09:16 alpha-cohort -rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 16546 Jun 25 09:16 alpha-cohort.config -rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 0 Jun 25 09:16 alpha-cohort.info -rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 0 Jun 25 09:16 alpha-cohort~ -rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 52 Jun 25 09:16 otgroup -rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 16515 Jun 25 09:16 otgroup.config -rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 77 Jun 25 09:16 otgroup.info -rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 0 Jun 25 09:16 t.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 534 Jun 25 09:16 t2.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 65536 Jun 25 09:16 t2.txt~ -rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 71 Jun 25 09:16 test -rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 0 Jun 25 09:05 test-l -rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 0 Jun 25 09:05 test-l-digest drw-rw-r-- 2 majordom majordom 512 Jun 25 09:05 test-l-digest.archive lrwxr-xr-x 1 root majordom 11 Jun 25 09:05 test-l-digest.info -> test-l.info lrwxr-xr-x 1 root majordom 13 Jun 25 09:05 test-l-digest.passwd -> test-l.passwd drw-rw-r-- 2 majordom majordom 512 Jun 25 09:05 test-l.archive -rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 124 Jun 25 09:05 test-l.info -rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 5 Jun 25 09:05 test-l.passwd -rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 16482 Jun 25 09:16 test.config -rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 0 Jun 25 09:16 test.info -rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 73 Jun 25 09:16 test~ =========================================================================== Does anyone who is using majordomo see any problems with permissions? Any help appreciated. Thanks Gene