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From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: ctm prob (help)
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To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
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> 
> As Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
> > 
> > I established a ctm user, and after the mail flow started running
> > I'm getting bounces:
> >    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > Message delivered to mailing list <ctm@blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
> > ctm_rmail: cannot log to 'ctm_log'
> > ctm_rmail: cannot open '/a/ctm/pieces/p.011878' for writing
> > 554 "|/usr/sbin/ctm_rmail -p /a/ctm/pieces  -d /a/ctm/deltas -l ctm_log"... unkn
> > own mailer error 1
> > 
> > /a/ctm is the home dir of ctm which is  drwxrwxr-x  ctm wheel.
> 
> Mail filters are being run by user daemon.  My ~ctm (where the files
> go to) is mode 1777.  This might not be the very best idea for a true
> multi-user site (since somebody could cause denial-of-resource attacks
> by filling up the directory with not yet existant files of future
> batches).

Then the man page of ctm_rmail is misleading (if not wrong) when saying:

     lines in your /etc/aliases file (assuming the /ctm/tmp and /ctm/deltas
     directories and /ctm/log file are writable by user daemon or group
     wheel):

I had made them writable by group wheel and it failed.


> 
> -- 
> cheers, J"org
> 
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de