On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> I am getting errors like the following in the log. Notice that exim is
> trying to use the exim user to open the file instead of the majordom
> user.
>From the manual's definition of options for directors:
user |
|
Type: string |
Default: see below |
|
If the driver queues an address for a local transport, and the transport |
does not specify a user, then the user given here is used when running the |
delivery process.
In other words, it is not relevant to the running of the director
itself. That is why it is trying to read the file as the exim user.
>
> 1998-12-08 16:30:11 0znTlr-0004xM-00 majordomo_aliases director: failed
> to open /usr/local/majordomo/lists/lists.aliases for linear search:
> Permission denied (euid=504 egid=504)
> This is the permissions on the file:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 majordom majordom 462 Dec 8 16:37 lists.aliases
It is world readable, so the exim user should be able to read it,
*provided* it can read the directory. What are the permissions on
/usr, /usr/local, /usr/local/majordomo, and /usr/local/majordomo/lists ?
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