From owner-freebsd-net Thu Dec 10 19:49:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA06412 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 19:49:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from poboxer.pobox.com (port7.prairietech.net [208.141.230.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA06405 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 19:49:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alk@poboxer.pobox.com) Received: (from alk@localhost) by poboxer.pobox.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id VAA08337; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 21:48:34 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from alk) From: Tony Kimball MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 21:48:33 -0600 (CST) X-Face: \h9Jg:Cuivl4S*UP-)gO.6O=T]]@ncM*tn4zG);)lk#4|lqEx=*talx?.Gk,dMQU2)ptPC17cpBzm(l'M|H8BUF1&]dDCxZ.c~Wy6-j,^V1E(NtX$FpkkdnJixsJHE95JlhO 5\M3jh'YiO7KPCn0~W`Ro44_TB@&JuuqRqgPL'0/{):7rU-%.*@/>q?1&Ed Reply-To: alk@pobox.com To: bill@bilver.magicnet.net Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: majordomo References: <4.1.19981210125618.00ad17b0@abused.com> <199812110258.VAA03249@bilver.magicnet.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13936.38339.37056.442305@avalon.east> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Quoth Bill Vermillion on Thu, 10 December: : : > ----- 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? Well, yes. That's what group permissions are *for*, to allow the members of a given group to administer those parts of the system for which they are responsible. Sendmail and ppp are painfully, woefully ignorant of the meaning and value of group bits. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message