Re: [cobalt-users] Majordomo problem... resolved?

["Neil J. Kemp" <guyver@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah yes! Sorry you can ignore the post I've also just sent then. I remember
this now, because I also had that problem with Redhat 6.0 using smrsh
(/etc/smrs/*) and I guess I forgot about it.

My apologies and glad you got it working!

--Neil

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Jeff Lasman wrote:

> I believe I finally figured out the problem:
> 
> On our RaQ2 sendmail.cf runs the sendmail trusted shell, smrsh (see 
> "sendmail", the book, published by O'Reilly, page 349ff.
> 
> The trusted shell strips the pathname, and looks for the program in a 
> special directory, /usr/adm/sm.bin.  In that directory was a symbolic link 
> to the copy of "wrapper" in the /usr/local/majordomo directory, so that's 
> the one it would always run.
> 
> I solved the problem (I hope <wry grin>) by creating a new program name, 
> "majordwrapper" and putting it into that sm.bin directory as a symbolic 
> link to the copy of "wrapper" in the /usr/local/majord directory.  To 
> maintain referrential integrity I also put a symbolic link to the copy of 
> "wrapper" in the /usr/local/majord directory, also called "majordwrapper", 
> in the /usr/local/majord directory.
> 
> Works so far.
> 
> Previously, I had a support guy from California Regional Internet (our RaQ 
> supplier) on this for many hours; he's their top man and knows Linux 
> backwards and forwards (I only know it since kernel 0.99; he's a bit more 
> experienced <smile>).
> 
> My clue came from this issue:
> 
> It seemed that no matter where the copy of "wrapper" resided that we tried 
> to send email to, it would always go to the copy in the 
> "/usr/local/majordomo" directory.
> 
> Then, when I tried sending mail to a copy of the "canned_reply" program in 
> the O'Reilly "Managing Internet Information Services" book (which I've used 
> in other systems previously without a problem), I got an email returned by 
> MAILER-DAEMON that said in part:
> 
>    sh: canned_reply not available for sendmail programs
> 
> This told me two things... that the shell was the problem, and that it must 
> be a special shell that knew specific things about sendmail.
> 
> Then my trip through "Sendmail", the O'Reilly book.  Which I've always 
> heartily recommended.  Now I know why <smile>.
> 
> Only one issue left:  since I installed majordomo (and compiled "wrapper" 
> to run majordomo under the user "majordom", how come it doesn't?  It runs 
> it as "mail".
> 
> Oh well... that's something I can overcome for now.
> 
> For the benefit of those of us who overcome the problem by making 
> directories and files world writable, may I suggest a (slightly) more 
> secure option:  just add the "mail" user to the "daemon" group, and set all 
> the files and directories in your majordomo path to be owned by the daemon 
> group.  Slightly more secure.  Until we can solve this little issue <smile>.
> 
> (This fix took about 20 hours or so to finally figure out... I should write 
> a book <smile>.)
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
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