I am experiencing a problem that I have seen discussed in the
Exim and Majordomo list archives, but I was unable to find an
solution posted there. In fact, there is an entry in the
Majordomo FAQ for this issue, but as you'll see below, I've
followed the advice in the FAQ (I believe...), no no avail.
After installing Majordomo and providing some initial setup, I am
unable to send *any* mail. Any attempt to do so results in a
permission denied error as the following example shows:
$ echo 'test' | mail root
2001-05-10 10:03:29 14xtqb-0000jT-00 majordomo_aliases director:
failed to open /usr/local/majordomo/lists/lists.aliases
for linear search: Permission denied (euid=8 egid=8)
User `mail' has uid 8; group `mail' has gid 8.
FWIW, `mail' is a member of group `majordom'; `majordom' is a
member of group `mail'.
Mail does have read access to the file, as demonstrated by the
following:
# su mail
$ cd /tmp; cat /usr/local/majordomo/lists/lists.aliases
majordom: majordomo
majordomo: "|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper majordomo"
owner-majordomo: postmaster
majordomo-owner: postmaster
File permissions on the file and each superior directory follow:
# ls -l /usr/local/majordomo/lists/lists.aliases
-rw-rw---- 1 majordom majordom 600 May 9 15:42
# ls -ld /usr/local/majordomo/lists \
> /usr/local/majordomo /usr/local /usr
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 May 3 07:44 /usr
drwxr-xr-x 14 root staff 4096 May 8 19:27 /usr/local
drwxrwxr-x 5 majordom majordom 4096 May 9 11:18 /usr/local/majordomo
drwxrwxr-x 2 majordom majordom 4096 May 9 15:42 /usr/local/majordomo/lists
And, finally, here are the additions I made to the exim.conf
file:
trusted_users = mail:majordom
majordomo_aliases:
driver = aliasfile
file = /usr/local/majordomo/lists/lists.aliases
user = majordom
group = majordom
search_type = lsearch
I could sure use a solution to this problem. :-) Thanks in
advance.
-Marc
