From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 12 23: 3:50 2002 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 5EAFA37B401 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 23:03:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp03.wlv.untd.com (smtp03.wlv.untd.com [209.247.163.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DAACC43EB2 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 23:03:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from idiot1@netzero.net) Received: (qmail 3916 invoked from network); 13 Dec 2002 07:03:42 -0000 Received: from dialup-63.208.205.20.dial1.tampa1.level3.net (HELO netzero.net) (63.208.205.20) by smtp03.wlv.untd.com with SMTP; 13 Dec 2002 07:03:42 -0000 Message-ID: <3DF986D4.7060007@netzero.net> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 02:05:56 -0500 From: Kirk Bailey Organization: Silas Dent Memorial Cabal of ERIS Esoteric and hot dog boiling society User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sendmail-questions@sendmail.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: automatin the creation/destruction of email lists Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ok, this one is tough. I am writing 4 scripts- 2 sdevlope webforms, and are done, no problem. The other two respectively create or destroy email lists. Or at least that's the goal. Sendmail is VERY persnickity about permissions and ownerships for the aliases files- at least. I have edited sendmail.cf so it compiles from a second aliases file, aliases.tinylist, which is in /etc/mail, and it reads the file fine. Note the webscript runs by apache (as nobody) cannot write to the /mail dir; it bombs at this point. If I set the dir so other identities can write to it, sendmail get's VERY upset when I issue the newaliases command. so either it accepts the file, but I cannot write to it, or I cannot write to it, but it accepts the file. sigh... What's a fellow to do? Please advise. -- end Respectfully, Kirk D Bailey +---------------------"Thou Art Free." -Eris-----------------------+ | http://www.howlermonkey.net mailto:highprimate@howlermonkey.net | | KILL spam dead! http://www.scambusters.org/stopspam/#Pledge | | http://www.tinylist.org +--------+ mailto:grumpy@tinylist.org | +------------------Thinking| NORMAL |Thinking----------------------+ +--------+ --------------------------------------------- Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message