Directory permissions for majordomo

Derrick Ryalls ryallsd at datasphereweb.com
Wed Jun 25 13:28:04 PDT 2003


> I've installed Majordomo from the ports and it runs using 
> sendmail. I got an error message saying that resend couldn't 
> write in /usr/local/majordomo/lists because it was 'wold 
> writable'. When I restrict write privileges then I get 
> 'permission denied' when it tries to create a temporary lock 
> file in lists. the current directories look like this:

I run majordom with qmail, but I believe the permissions will be the
same.

You left out ./ from the list, here is mine:

drwxr-xr-x   8 majordom  majordom    512 Apr 14 22:06 ./
drwxr-xr-x   4 majordom  majordom    512 Apr 15 20:43 lists/

My lists dir has x permissions on it, but besides that the permissions
on
the contents are the same.  Hope this helps

> 
> total 280
> -rw-rw-r--  1 majordom  majordom      0 Jun 25 10:27 Log
> drwxr-xr-x  2 majordom  majordom    512 Jun 25 09:05 Tools
> -r--r--r--  1 root      wheel      4539 Jun 25 09:05 aliases.majordomo
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root      majordom     11 Jun 25 09:05 archive 
> -> archive2.pl
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 majordom  majordom   5512 Jun 25 09:05 archive2.pl
> drwxr-xr-x  2 majordom  majordom    512 Jun 25 09:05 bin
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 majordom  majordom   3039 Jun 25 09:05 bounce-remind
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 majordom  majordom  10867 Jun 25 09:05 
> config-test -rwxr-xr-x  1 majordom  majordom  51130 Jun 25 
> 09:05 config_parse.pl -rwxr-xr-x  1 majordom  majordom  14516 
> Jun 25 09:05 digest
> drwxrwxr-x  3 majordom  majordom    512 Jun 25 09:05 digests
> drwxrwxr-x  2 majordom  majordom    512 Jun 25 09:05 doc
> drwxr--r--  4 majordom  majordom   1024 Jun 25 10:57 lists
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 majordom  majordom  62498 Jun 25 09:05 majordomo
> -rw-r--r--  1 majordom  majordom  10497 Jun 25 09:11 majordomo.cf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root      majordom  10509 Jun 25 09:05 majordomo.cf~
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 majordom  majordom  24381 Jun 25 09:05 majordomo.pl
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 majordom  majordom    137 Jun 25 09:05 
> majordomo_version.pl
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 majordom  majordom   4036 Jun 25 09:05 request-answer
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 majordom  majordom  30164 Jun 25 09:05 resend
> -rw-r--r--  1 majordom  majordom  10398 Jun 25 09:05 sample.cf
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 majordom  majordom   8060 Jun 25 09:05 shlock.pl
> -rw-r--r--  1 root      majordom      0 Jun 25 11:21 t.txt
> drwx------  2 majordom  majordom    512 Jun 25 10:57 tmp
> -r-sr-x---  1 majordom  majordom   7326 Jun 25 09:05 wrapper




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