Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 06:33:30 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: "Charles A. Peters" <cpeters2@home.com> Cc: Freebsd-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Majordomo error .. returned mail: testlist-list ... aliasing/forwarding loop broken Message-ID: <19990720063329.A3245@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <003101bed21c$fccd9000$0700a8c0@charles.domain>; from Charles A. Peters on Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 03:29:15PM -0400 References: <003101bed21c$fccd9000$0700a8c0@charles.domain>
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On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 03:29:15PM -0400, Charles A. Peters wrote: > I am setting up a mailing list using majordomo version 1.94. I > receive the following in an email message to the owner of the test > list (me) indicating that the aliasing/forwarding loop has been > broken: > 550 :include:/usr/local/majordomo/lists/testlist... Cannot open > /usr/local/majordomo/lists/testlist: Group writable directory > 554 testlist-list... aliasing/forwarding loop broken You haven't done anything wrong at all. This is a FAQ, but it's not easy to find the answer. Majordomo 1.94.4 was so good that it hasn't needed to be updated in ages. Since then, sendmail has changed radically and the combination with the newer sendmails (8.9x) causes this error. It is noted in the FAQ, but not in the ancient FAQ shipped with majorodomo, and IIRC the supplied FAQ gives only a broken old URL for the supposed location of new versions of the FAQ. To solve the immediate problem, make the majordomo/lists directory so that group can't write to it: # chmod g-w /usr/local/majordomo/lists You didn't want to let special people log in and fiddle with your config anyway, did you? You might also need to shuffle the location of your majordomo aliases (or change the permissions on the majordomo directory twice) to stop other complaints from sendmail. Since the person who works on majordomo here is root anyway, I put the aliases into /etc and tell sendmail to look there, or simply add them to the normal /etc/alias file if there's only a few lists. To get the latest version of the FAQ, go to http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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