Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 16:25:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Scott <joseph@randomnetworks.com> To: "Charles A. Peters" <cpeters2@home.com> Cc: Freebsd-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Majordomo error .. returned mail: testlist-list ... aliasing/forwarding loop broken Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907191621460.81227-100000@unix1.digital-web.net> In-Reply-To: <003101bed21c$fccd9000$0700a8c0@charles.domain>
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You don't mention what version of Sendmail you are using, but I'm going to guess that it's 8.9.x. Check out the Majordomo FAQ : http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/majordomo-faq.html#4.12 It's short, so here it is : The new security features of sendmail don't allow :include: directories to be group writable. Unfortunately, by default these directories are group writable with Majordomo. If you have this problem you will see errors from sendmail like "Cannot open /path/name: Group writable directory" and "aliasing/forwarding loop broken". One solution is to add: O DontBlameSendmail=groupwritabledirpathsafe in your sendmail.cf and restart sendmail. The other method (and generally the recommended one) is to remove the group-write bit on the lists directory and any list files. Make sure also any parent directories to not have the group or other write bit set. If Majordomo is working correctly having group write permission is not necessary. However, some people find it convenient to have group-write access so users can be put in the majordomo group and not need root access all the time to work on majordomo. You may want to take a look at Mailman. I spent a fair amount of time working with majordomo for a dozen or so small lists and it was kind of a pain. Don't get me work, it works, completely. Then I came across mailman and I was sold : http://www.list.org/ Joseph Scott joseph@randomnetworks.com On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Charles A. Peters wrote: > I am setting up a mailing list using majordomo version 1.94. I receive the > following in an email message to the owner of the test list (me) indicating > that the aliasing/forwarding loop has been broken: > > snip... > > > > The original message was received at Mon, 19 Jul 1999 14:24:20 -0500 (EST) > from majordom@localhost > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > testlist-list > :include:/usr/local/majordomo/lists/testlist > (expanded from: testlist-list) > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > 550 :include:/usr/local/majordomo/lists/testlist... Cannot open > /usr/local/majordomo/lists/testlist: Group writable directory > 554 testlist-list... aliasing/forwarding loop broken > > < > ... snip > > I only have one test user on this list (me), and that test user is not > getting any list messages. > > Any ideas on how to fix this? > > Thanks in advance! > > Charles > > cpeters2@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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