From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 25 13:28:04 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 5B1CC37B401 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:28:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from truman.datasphereweb.com (12-212-67-226.client.attbi.com [12.212.67.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 99E7043FEA for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:28:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryallsd@datasphereweb.com) Received: (qmail 23608 invoked from network); 25 Jun 2003 20:27:56 -0000 Received: from evrtwa1-ar17-4-47-114-001.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net (HELO bartxp) (4.47.114.1) by truman.datasphereweb.com with SMTP; 25 Jun 2003 20:27:56 -0000 From: "Derrick Ryalls" To: "'Gene Bomgardner'" , Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:27:47 -0700 Message-ID: <00bf01c33b58$410085e0$0200a8c0@bartxp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024 In-Reply-To: <200306251654.h5PGsAoZ003634@brightstar.ath.cx> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal Subject: RE: 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 20:28:04 -0000 > I've installed Majordomo from the ports and it runs using=20 > sendmail. I got an error message saying that resend couldn't=20 > write in /usr/local/majordomo/lists because it was 'wold=20 > writable'. When I restrict write privileges then I get=20 > 'permission denied' when it tries to create a temporary lock=20 > file in lists. the current directories look like this: I run majordom with qmail, but I believe the permissions will be the same. You left out ./ from the list, here is mine: drwxr-xr-x 8 majordom majordom 512 Apr 14 22:06 ./ drwxr-xr-x 4 majordom majordom 512 Apr 15 20:43 lists/ My lists dir has x permissions on it, but besides that the permissions on the contents are the same. Hope this helps >=20 > 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=20 > -> 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=20 > config-test -rwxr-xr-x 1 majordom majordom 51130 Jun 25=20 > 09:05 config_parse.pl -rwxr-xr-x 1 majordom majordom 14516=20 > 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=20 > 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