From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 16 19:06:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA00906 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 19:06:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from emu.sourcee.com (emu.sourcee.com [199.201.159.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA00900 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 19:06:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nrice@emu.sourcee.com) Received: (from nrice@localhost) by emu.sourcee.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA05506; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 22:05:29 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19981116220528.B5428@emu.sourcee.com> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 22:05:28 -0500 From: "Norman C. Rice" To: David Wolfskill Cc: fabry@panam.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: group writable directory error with majordomo References: <023001be11a5$798778b0$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org> <199811162124.NAA24758@pau-amma.whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199811162124.NAA24758@pau-amma.whistle.com>; from David Wolfskill on Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 01:24:31PM -0800 X-Mutt-References: <199811162124.NAA24758@pau-amma.whistle.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 01:24:31PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: > >From: "Alain G. Fabry" > >Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:10:01 -0600 > > >I've updated our sendmail to 8.9.1. After this update, majordomo is giving > >me an error..... > > >550 :include:/usr/local/majordomo/lists/panam-alumni...cannot open > >/usr/local/majordomo/lists/panam-alumni: Group writable directory > >Message delivered to mailing list panam-alumni-outgoing > >554 panam-alumni-outgoing... aliasing/forwarding loop broken > > >With the update to sendmail 8.9.1 there is no more relaying on our server. > > That may be true, but it's not clear to me that it's relevant. > > The complaint is the group-writable directory, > /usr/local/majordomo/lists/panam-alumni. chmod go-w /usr/local/majordomo/lists should resolve the problem. -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr. > > Try ensurinig that majordomo owns the directory, and take away > group-write premissions. (Or change sendmail's configuration so it > doesn't complain; see the "confUNSAFE_GROUP_WRITES" define.) > > >All the subscribers to the list are from outside the domain except for > >myself. Nobody, including myself cannot send any more mail to the list. > >What could be the problem and how can i solve it? > > Majordomo does not depend on "relaying" to accomplish its task. Rather, > it receives a message addressed to a specific address; in response, it > sends a message to a list of addresses. > > david > -- > David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator > dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message