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List:       majordomo-users
Subject:    Re: Question about nobody.
From:       "Peter Dumpert" <pdumpert () innovativebusiness ! net>
Date:       2003-05-14 14:01:37
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Check your virtusertable.  I've found that the virtual users are checked 
before the aliases.  If a match is found, the mail is delivered and the 
process stops there.  This drove me crazy when I first set up majordomo, 
because I had a "catch-all" set up for my domain in my virtusertable 
(@domain.com   mailbox).  This caused all mail sent to mailing lists to be 
delivered to the default mailbox instead of being processed by majordomo.

On 13 May 2003 at 12:38, Steven W. Orr wrote:

> I just discovered that all my majordomo traffic is getting copied to 
> /var/spool/nobody This makes no sense to me:
> 
> [root@saturn etc]# grep nobody aliases
> owner-majordomo: steveo,nobody
> nobody:         /dev/null
> mjtest-owner:   steveo@syslang.net,nobody
>         == /usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper resend -l mjtest 
> mjtest-outgoing,nobody'"
> mjtest-digest-outgoing: 
> :include:/usr/lib/majordomo/lists/mjtest-digest,nobody"
> owner-man-bytes-dog:    steveo,nobody
> owner-danforthfarms:    steveo,nobody
> frambors-owner: steveo@syslang.net,nobody,
> frambors:               "|/usr/lib/majordomo/demime  '== 
> /usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper resend -l frambors frambors-outgoing,nobody'"
> frambors-digest-outgoing:
> :include:/usr/lib/majordomo/lists/frambors-digest,nobody"
> owner-maynardrodandgun: steveo,nobody owner-patchell-olson:   steveo,nobody
> owner-p1tmm:    steveo,nobody tmm-owner:      steveo@syslang.net,nobody,
> tmm:            "|/usr/lib/majordomo/demime  '== /usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper
> resend -l tmm tmm-outgoing,nobody'" tmm-digest-outgoing:
> :include:/usr/lib/majordomo/lists/tmm-digest,nobody" owner-tmms-cc: 
> steveo,nobody ftpa-sc-owner:  steveo@syslang.net,nobody, ftpa-sc:          
>      "|/usr/lib/majordomo/demime  '== /usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper resend -l
> ftpa-sc ftpa-sc-outgoing,nobody'" ftpa-sc-digest-outgoing:
> :include:/usr/lib/majordomo/lists/ftpa-sc-digest,nobody" [root@saturn etc]#
> 
> 
> As you can see, nobody hooks off into /dev/null. Anyone know what's going
> on here? I do happen to have (under Red Hat) an entry in my passwd file:
> 
> [root@saturn etc]# grep nobody /etc/passwd
> nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:/sbin/nologin
> nfsnobody:x:65534:65534:Anonymous NFS User:/var/lib/nfs:/sbin/nologin
> [root@saturn etc]# 
> 
> Should I change all ref in my aliases file from nobody to noone?
> 
> I'm confused. :-(
> 
> -- 
> -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have
> - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say
> Organ -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We
> are all- -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo
> at syslang.net
> 


-- 
Peter A. Dumpert
Innovative Computer Services LLC - web design/e-pubs/consulting
Innovative BusinessNet - an ISP for Business
www.innovativebusiness.net
Phone: 732-683-0092 ext 102  Fax: 732-577-9390


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