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List:       majordomo-users
Subject:    Re: newbie question
From:       Staven Bruce <Staven.Bruce () valleyair ! org>
Date:       2002-12-20 17:32:47
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Daniel,

Thank you, this has helped me quite a bit. However, I everytime the use the
newlist3.pl script, the script seems to run fine, until it goes to create
the files and directories. At the point it goes to create the files and
directories, it comes back with the message "cannot open for write". I
figure I just need to change the permissions on the directory it is trying
to write to, but how can I find out which directory the script is trying to
write to?

Thanks,

Staven



-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Liston [mailto:dliston@sonny.org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:16 AM
To: Staven Bruce
Cc: majordomo-users@greatcircle.com
Subject: Re: newbie question


If you are running redhat, go get the rpm version of majordomo and
install that.  Then get the newlist3.pl script from the contributions
page.  The perl script should not need modifications for redhat.

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/powertools/6.1/i386/majordomo-1.94.5-2.i
386.rpm
ftp://ftp.ccsf.org/majordomo-contrib/newlist3.pl.gz

If you have users on the same machine as majordomo, be sure to set
the permissions down to just 750 from 755 on wrapper.  Also check
the /etc/majordomo.cf for $whereami.  If it uses `/bin/dnsdomainname`,
chang that to "<your.actual.host.name>" instead.  Otherwise you will
need to add a chomp command to strip the newline from the result of
the execution of that command.

Dan Liston

Staven Bruce wrote:
> I'm setting up the latest version of Majordomo on Redhat Linux 8.0. I have
> Sendmail 8.12 installed. The Sendmail box works ok, it can only reach
> internal recipients currently because, i think, of our firewall. I don't
> believe this to be a problem right now, as I am just trying to set up an
> internal mail list for testing purposes. I went through the compile, build
> and install of Majordomo, followed the README file and read the FAQ's.
When
> I completed everything, the last line of the INSTALL text stated that I
> should receive a message for the new group created. I, however, did not
> receive that e-mail. I then said to send list commands to that list.
> However, i don't quite understand. Is there a way I can check to see of my
> implementation of Majordomo is really working? How do I send messages to
the
> list? Would I be better off installing a gui front end like MajorCool ?
> 
> Any advice helps,
> 
> Thanks! 

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