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Re: Majordomo permissions?

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From: Ben Smithurst
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.

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