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Article #488Re: Majordomo permissions?
From: Ben Smithurst
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:00
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:00
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Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hi all, > Can someone tell me what permissions I should have on > /var/lib/majordomo, /var/lib/majordomo/lists, > /var/lib/majordomo/archives and the files and directories under the last > two of those? > I have a list called test (among others), and whenever I send a > message to it I get "Cannot open /var/lib/majordomo/lists/test: > Permission denied" in /var/log/mail, and a couple of e-mails telling me > the same thing. > I've tried to set it all up according to the woodpecker book, but > I've clearly missed something. Are any files group- or world-writable? Sendmail doesn't like those, apparently, and that could be the problem. Though Sendmail will normally tell you than in the error message, so I guess you checked that already if it said anything like that. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D
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