From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 9 12:40:55 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11090 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 12:40:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11085 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 12:40:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.10 #3) id 0zz3Hz-000Lnd-00; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 18:39:11 +0000 Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 18:39:11 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Jerry Preeper Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: aliasing/forwarding loop broken NOT majordomo Message-ID: <19990109183911.A83712@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <3.0.5.32.19990108205744.008e4180@crash.cts.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990108205744.008e4180@crash.cts.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jerry Preeper wrote: > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > 550 :include:/www/ocbarr/maillist/boardml.txt... Cannot open > /www/ocbarr/maillist/boardml.txt: Group writable directory > 554 ... aliasing/forwarding loop broken > > Permissions of /www/ocbarr/maillist are > drw-r--r-- 2 spirit spirit 512 Dec 13 17:09 maillist > (not group writable) If that's a directory you'll probably want the "x" bits set. Mode 755 or 711 should do. > boardml.txt permissions are > -rw-r--r-- 1 spirit spirit 291 Dec 5 07:04 boardml.txt Sendmail might complain ny directories in the path are group writable, check /, /www, and /www/ocbarr as well. Disclaimer: I am not a sendmail expert, I don't even use it, but this "problem" is reported a lot on the Majordomo lists. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message