SUMMARY: Problem with majordomo after installing 3.2D and perl5.002

From: Cardell Orrin <corrin_at_mecca.mecca.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 11:56:06 -0500 (CDT)

Thanks to Pat O'Brien for pointing me in the right direction.

I guess I didn't check the permissions as closely as I should have.

Pat asked one question and cleared it all up:

Is wrapper suid root?

I changed the setuid bit, and it works fine now.


Thanx,

Cardell

> I just installed 3.2D and perl5.002, now I seem to be having a problem
> with majordomo. I had majordomo running on a machine with 1.3 and perl5.001.
> I transferred over all the majordomo information
> (user,group,homedir,etc). I also recompiled the wrapper that is
> used by majordomo. The message I get is:
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> open of temp file /usr/local/majordom/lists/shlock.6082 failed
> Permission denied
> ABORT open of temp file /usr/local/majordom/lists/shlock.6082 failed
> Permission denied at /usr/local/majordom/bin/majordomo.pl line 209.
> 554 "|/usr/local/majordom/bin/wrapper resend -R -l test-list -h mecca.mecca.org -s test-outgoing"... unknown mailer error 2
>
> ----------------
>
> Has anyone had this problem? Any ideas about why the permission is
> denied?? By the way, I checked all the permissions, users, and groups of
> the files and directories, and they look like they should.
>
> Cardell
>
Received on Thu Jun 13 1996 - 19:29:05 NZST

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