From owner-freebsd-net Thu Dec 10 18:56:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA00844 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 18:56:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from magicnet.magicnet.net (magicnet.magicnet.net [204.96.116.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA00839 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 18:56:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bill@bilver.magicnet.net) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by magicnet.magicnet.net (8.8.6/8.8.8) with UUCP id VAA18246 for freebsd-net@freebsd.org; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 21:55:39 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.magicnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id VAA03249 for freebsd-net@freebsd.org; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 21:58:44 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Vermillion Message-Id: <199812110258.VAA03249@bilver.magicnet.net> Subject: Re: majordomo In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981210125618.00ad17b0@abused.com> from GVB at "Dec 10, 98 01:05:05 pm" To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 21:58:44 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org GVB recently said: > Might be a little offbase here, but I have been tasked to setup > Majordomo for one of our customers.. I know the basics of the > beast, but would like to know the basics of how it is supposed to > work. When someone sends email to the list isnt it supposed to > send it out to everyone right away? Or is a a delay time? Or do > you have to invoke something to send it? I am getting an error > from majordomo when I try to force a digest to be sent out: > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > camft-main-digest-outgoing > :include:/usr/local/majordomo/lists/camft-main-digest > (expanded from: camft-main-digest-outgoing) > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > 550 :include:/usr/local/majordomo/lists/camft-main-digest... Cannot open > /usr/local/majordomo/lists/camft-main-digest: Group writable directory ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ There's your clue. The latest sendmail doesn't like this. After all you don't want other changing your mailing list do you? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message