[cobalt-users] I know somebody knows the answer...

[Clayton McGow <mrwilder@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Since I know somebody knows the answer out there, I'm asking
one more time before I give up!

My copy of majordomo ran fine on our machine (several
virtual domains + multiple IPs) until I changed the primary
interface name from "raq7.atoznet.com" to "ns1.atoznet.com". 

I can still send email to the lists just fine, and they go
through to the subscribed members. However, I am no longer
able to send email to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx, nor am I able
to send email to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

If I telnet in as an administrator, I can type "echo
'help'|mail majordomo", but I cannot issue the same command
if I telnet in as a normal user (I get a 550 error,
nonPriviledgedUserName@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - unknown user,
presumably because these users can only be sent email at
atoznet.com, NOT ns1.atoznet.com) .

I have these records, among others, in the dns settings:
A       atoznet.com -> 63.230.201.226
A       www.atoznet.com -> 63.230.201.226
A       ns1.atoznet.com -> 63.230.201.225
P       63.230.201.225 -> ns1.atoznet.com
P       63.230.201.226 -> www.atoznet.com
M       atoznet.com is sent High to atoznet.com

and all the services on this box are working fine, including
telnet, ftp, pop, imap, smtp, web, you name it.

this line is in aliases.majordomo:
majordomo:      "|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper majordomo"

these lines are in virtusertable (I've tried the remarked
out ones, too):
#majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx  majordomo_site1
#majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx      majordomo_site1
majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx   majordomo
majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx       majordomo

this is the entire 'hosts' file:
127.0.0.1       localhost
63.230.201.225  ns1.atoznet.com         # main interface

running config-test reports no problems, here are what seem
to be the most interesting lines:
   FQDN=ns1.atoznet.com
   LOGNAME=admin
   USER=admin
--------------------- euid/egid checks ---------------------
   effective user  = admin (uid 110)
   effective group = daemon wheel disk adm sys daemon bin
root (gid 2 10 6 4 3 )
---------------------- uid/gid checks ----------------------
   real      user  = admin (uid 110)
   real      group = daemon wheel disk adm sys daemon bin
root (gid 2 10 6 4 3 )
------------------------------------------------------------

The owner of every file in /usr/local/majordomo is "admin",
except "wrapper", which is owned by root.
The permissions appear to be okay, most things are set to
755 except the ones that end in "cf" or "pl"  

The log file contains many entries like these:
Nov 28 00:26:56 atoznet.com majordomo[4465] {Clayton McGow
<mrwilder@xxxxxxxxxx$
Nov 28 01:15:40 atoznet.com majordomo[5389] {Clayton McGow
<mrwilder@xxxxxxxxxx$
Nov 28 01:45:30 atoznet.com majordomo[5765] {Administrator
<admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx$
Nov 28 01:50:48 atoznet.com majordomo[5825] {Clayton McGow
<mrwilder@xxxxxxxxxx$
Nov 28 01:50:55 atoznet.com majordomo[5833] {Clayton McGow
<mrwilder@xxxxxxxxxx$

Note that "mrwilder" is not a valid user at
"ns1.atoznet.com", but he is a user at "atoznet.com". His
commands (which were issued during a telnet session) failed
with 550- mrwilder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx user unknown... the
Administrator issued commands the same commands during a
telnet session that succeeded (presumably because the UID is
the same), but "admin" is a valid user at "ns1.atoznet.com"
and a valid email adress at both domains.

Dan Liston mentioned that my problems are probably more DNS
and sendmail related than Majordomo itself. I believe this
is true, and I notice specifically the fact that majordomo
thinks it is at "ns1.atoznet.com" (63.230.201.225) but the
mail is sent to "atoznet.com" (63.230.201.226). As
"atoznet.com" and "ns1.atoznet.com" are both fully qualified
but seperate domains, I think this is probably related.

And, to top it all off, I've ran newaliases and rebooted a
coupla' hundred times.

I'm sure there is enough information in this letter for some
kid to hack in and bring the whole server to the ground, uh,
is there anything that stands out as "obviously messed up"
for one of you "wise men" or "wise women" out there?


-- 
Clayton McGow
mrwilder@xxxxxxxxxx