From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 17 22:54:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA21674 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 22:54:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from titus.stade.co.uk (stade.demon.co.uk [158.152.29.164]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA21633; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 22:53:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aw1@stade.co.uk) Received: (from aw1@localhost) by titus.stade.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA09568; Sat, 18 Jul 1998 06:50:51 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from aw1) Message-ID: <19980718065051.A25700@stade.co.uk> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 06:50:51 +0100 From: Adrian Wontroba To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Majordomo [was Re: And it's back] Reply-To: aw1@stade.co.uk Mail-Followup-To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19980717225920.A1388@stade.co.uk> <199807172331.QAA15220@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <199807172331.QAA15220@hub.freebsd.org>; from Jonathan M. Bresler on Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 04:31:23PM -0700 Organization: Stade Computers Ltd, UK X-Phone: +(44) 121 681 6677 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 04:31:23PM -0700, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > wow! please be careful here. i read "aliases files" and > nearly filled my shorts! i dont see how /etc/aliases > could have been affected....majordomo doesnt have root. Sorry - very poor choice of words. > so your list file (or subscribers file) got toasted. > hmm.... Yes. > which version of majordomo? 1.94 (quite old). I seem to recall having seen similar problems with even older majordomos run under SCO Open Server. > are you grouping addresses, say 10 per outbound email, or > are you sending 1 message per address and creating a sendmail > process for each? Grouped - with one outbound mail for the entire list. None of the lists are large. -- Adrian Wontroba, Stade Computers Limited. phone: (+44) 121 681 6677 Mail info@accu.org for information about the Association of C and C++ Users or see To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message