Re: MajorDomo Problem with "wrapper"

[Erik van der Meulen <eme@ncm.nl>]

At 11:31 PM 8/27/96 -0400, Brian C. White wrote:
>
>Any mail sent to the "majordomo" alias and gets piped into the majordomo
>command via "wrapper" causes majordomo to just spin its wheels, chewing
>cpu cycles and allocating more and more memory.  If I run the command
>manually ("wrapper majordomo <email") it does the same thing.  If I leave
>off the wrapper and do (as root) "majordomo <email", it functions correctly.
>

This symptom with majordomo usually indicates a problem with access rights.
When I installed the majordomo package, I recall some sort of error message
complaining about an existing majordomo user/group (bug?). After deleting
those and reinstalling majordomo, everything was okay. Could your problem be
related to this?

Regards,

  Erik van der Meulen

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