Re: [cobalt-users] mailing all the siteadmins

["Babu P. Yogarajah" <bpy@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 13:09 11/10/00 +0100, you wrote:
>on 11/10/00 11:18 am, Babu P. Yogarajah at bpy@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> The alias 'site-adm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' is available as default.
>> To check the availability on your server
>> login as root and at command prompt try
>> 
>> sendmail -bv site-adm-list@localhost
>
>I tried this on my RaQ3i (with ALL latest patches) and got the following:
>
># sendmail -bv site-adm-list@localhost
>:include:/usr/local/majordomo/lists/site-adm... Cannot open
>/usr/local/majordomo/lists/site-adm: Group writable directory
>site-adm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx aliasing/forwarding loop broken
>
>I've never used majordomo on the box, and never configured any lists - maybe
>this is why? Any thoughts? Maybe I'm a victim of a rogue cobalt patch?
>
>Regards,
>
>Tarren


Since you have clearly mention the symptom,
here is the solution (disable the Group write permission)
login as root then at command prompt

chmod g-w /usr/local/majordomo/lists

then try

sendmail -bv site-adm-list@localhost



Best regards,
Babu P. Yogarajah
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