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Date:      Sat, 4 Nov 1995 18:54:36 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@rainbow-jr.dreaming.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, Majordomo-Users@GreatCircle.COM
Subject:   Re: Majordomo problem: FAQ pointer or help...
Message-ID:  <Pine.3.89.9511041838.M1620-0100000@kryten.atinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951104014827.367A-100000@rainbow-jr.dreaming.org>

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On Sat, 4 Nov 1995, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> 	The problem is that majordomo doesn't seem to work under
> FreeBSD...

	you are using it now ;)   FreeBSD.org is freefall.cdrom.com.  the 
freebsd mailing lists are majordomo mailing lists. ;))

> 	When I first installed it (v1.93), I made the mistake
> of compiling wrapper to be 'non-POSIX', which means that when I
> ran it, I was getting error messages back in email telling me
> to recompile it.  After recompiling, I'm getting absolutely
> nothing.  No error messages even being sent back to the sender
> stating that something failed.

	i am using 1.92 with the usual fixes (unlink's, sendmail 
invocations, ....)

	i understand that 1.93 has its share of problems (john rouillard 
please correct me if i am mistaken)

> 	Now, my /etc/aliases entries, I think, are pretty
> standard and brain dead.  Not doing anything weird with it,
> just straight subscribe and mail-out stuff...
> 
> 
> #/etc/aliases, a piece of it
> majordomo: "|/usr/local/lib/majordomo/wrapper majordomo"
> owner-majordomo: scrappy
> majordomo-owner: scrappy
> #
> # Info List
> #
> info: :include:/usr/local/mail/lists/info

	why not use 'resend' here.  does your majordomo add and remove 
subscribers from this file?   you are losing a lot of functionality here.

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