I had the same problem with majordomo installed from source. It still seemed to work, even though I got the chown error message. I did a chown of everything to daemon:daemon and since then haven't had a problem. I wonder if the documentation has it wrong (I haven't checked the code).
Bob On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Bek Oberin wrote: > > I've used the majordomo from tarball for years, but recently tried to > switch to using the proper .deb install. Everything is working right > except any attempt to subcribe/unsubscribe gives an error like this: > > > > >MAJORDOMO ABORT (mj_majordomo)!! > > > >chown(30, 31, "/home/majordomo/lists/cfs-p-digest.new"): Operation not > >permitted > > It seems that majordomo is running is id daemon:daemon, so it doesn't > have the permmissions to chown directories. 30:31, BTW, is > majordom:majordom - the same uid/gid that owns /home/majordomo and all > its subsidiaries. That's where I keep my lists. > > If this isn't sorted out within a few days I'll have to go back to > doing it all the "wrong" way ... don't much want to! Help! > > bekj > > -- > : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- > : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
