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Re: Majordomo permissions?



I had the same problem with majordomo installed from source.  It still
seemed to work, even though I got the chown error message.  I did a chown
of everything to daemon:daemon and since then haven't had a problem.  I
wonder if the documentation has it wrong (I haven't checked the code).

Bob

On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Bek Oberin wrote:

> 
> I've used the majordomo from tarball for years, but recently tried to
> switch to using the proper .deb install.  Everything is working right
> except any attempt to subcribe/unsubscribe gives an error like this:
> 
> >
> >MAJORDOMO ABORT (mj_majordomo)!!
> >
> >chown(30, 31, "/home/majordomo/lists/cfs-p-digest.new"): Operation not permitted
> 
> It seems that majordomo is running is id daemon:daemon, so it doesn't
> have the permmissions to chown directories.  30:31, BTW, is
> majordom:majordom - the same uid/gid that owns /home/majordomo and all
> its subsidiaries.  That's where I keep my lists.
> 
> If this isn't sorted out within a few days I'll have to go back to
> doing it all the "wrong" way ... don't much want to!  Help!
> 
> bekj
> 
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