Re: [cobalt-users] Majordomo revisited <frown>

[Jeff Lasman <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for writing, Bjarke...

Do you use majordomo for your own lists, created outside of the RaQ interface?

Do you allow people to subscribe and unsubscribe by sending email either to 
<majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx> or to <listname-request@xxxxxxxxxx>?

These are functionalities I must have (because we resell majordomo services).

Before I changed the directory permissions to 775, I got the following error:

> shlock: '/usr/local/majordomo/lists' is not writable by UID 8 GID 12

Afterwards, I got the following error:

chown(110, 2, "/usr/local/majordomo/lists/test.new"): Operation not permitted

when trying an unsubscribe.  Since I never got beyond there in my testing, 
I don't know if that's all that has to be fixed or not <frown>.

The problem seems to be that majordomo is running as one user but 
permissions are set by another.

I need to fix the problem asap; I'll probably just do another complete 
majordomo install under a different directory structure and set it up with 
the proper permissions; that should work.

But of course anything you can help me with will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Jeff

At 02:06 PM 12/15/99  Bjarke Alling wrote:
> Dear Jeff,
>
> Just to tell you. We have used the Majodomo on our main RaQ for at least 4 
> months. It works
> as expected.
>
> Please mail the errors you received.
>
> BTW. Take a look at Majorcool. 
> http://ncrinfo.ncr.com/pub/contrib/unix/MajorCool/. Web
> interface to Majordomo.
>
>
>
> /Bjarke
>
>
> > Yesterday I called Cobalt for support and spoke to Jeff Kamradt.  I
> > explained my problem (couldn't do an unsubscribe through email) and Jeff
> > told me someone would call me back the same day.
> >
> > No one did, so I called back today and asked for Jeff.
> >
> > I explained I either had to get majordomo working on the RAQ2 today, or I
> > couldn't use the RAQ2.  Jeff said someone would call me back within an
> > hour.
> >
> > No one did.
> >
> > So I called and spoke to Jeff again (this time he answered the phone
> > himself).
> >
> > He didn't know why I hadn't been called back, so he put me on hold and
> > went to check.
> >
> > He got back to me in about a minute and a half, to let me know that
> > Majordomo on the RAQ2 only works for lists from the web-based
> > interface.  Majordomo, if I wanted to use it to subscribe and unsubscribe
> > via email is, in his words "broken".
> >
> > On the plus side, he did say that Cobalt might be interested in buying my
> > knowledge in fixing it <smile>.  However, he probably has no power to deal
> > as Cobalt with me <smile, again>.
> >
> > I'm looking over the code Kevin <owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> sent to the list;
> > all the majordomo documentation (not supplied with the RAQ as far as I can
> > tell), and all the notes I've made in my years of majordomo experience.
> >
> > So I WILL make Majordomo work with lists set up outside of the
> > Interface.  And I WILL report back to the list.
> >
> > Hopefully today, since that's my deadline for either using the RAQ or
> > giving it up.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
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