I was having problems with the -request alias and asked for help.
I eventually discovered the answer deep in the Majordomo FAQ
which says:
'Problems with 1.93's request-answer
[Summary by Yusef Pisan]
There are some known bugs in request-answer. If you
get the error 'Undefined subroutine "main'lopen"' (or
"main::lopen" for Perl 5), you need to insert the line
'require "shlock.pl";' near the beginning of request-answer.
The syntax of the 'do_exec_sendmail' function is different
in majordomo than in majordomo.pl, so you need to change
all occurrences of 'do_exec_sendmail' in request-answer to
something like 'do_exec_sendmail_in_request_answer'.
On line 41 where it exec()'s sendmail, change the
"-f$list-request" to "-f$list-approval".'
I discovered the problem by doing:
echo hello | /usr/lib/sendmail -v list-request
I think the problem with the alpha seizing up may have
been related to my fiddling with the aliases but not
necessarily down to the request-answer problem itself.
Thanks for replying to:
hans_at_physics.orst.edu
gupe_at_elogica.com.br
rjklein_at_hcs.harvard.edu
Ray
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Received on Fri Oct 18 1996 - 16:52:52 NZDT