Re: can not write to queue directory, only works if chmoded to 777

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Ruben Sanchez Lopez-Tofiño wrote:

> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 23:52:17 +0100
> From: "[ISO-8859-1] Ruben Sanchez Lopez-Tofiño" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: can not write to queue directory, only works if chmoded to 777
> 
> first, I'm sorry but my english is very bad.
> 
> 
> I have installed last version of majordomo and I've a problem:
> 
> all go good during instalaltion, but when I do:  echo 'help' | mail 
> listserv:
> 
> [majordom@al-basit majordomo]$ echo 'help' | mail listserv
> [majordom@al-basit majordomo]$ WARNING: RunAsUser for MSP ignored, check 
> group ids (egid=12, want=77)
> can not write to queue directory /var/spool/clientmqueue/ (RunAsGid=0, 
> required=77): Permission denied
> 
> 
> I definded MAIL_GID = 77 in Makefile, and I added majordom user to 77 
> group, but that no solved nothing
> 
> as in this machine nobody login, finaly I do:
> 
> chmod 777 /var/spool/clientmqueue
> 
> and majordomo work fine, but this is a dirty solution. There are other 
> best solution?

Does your wrapper have correct permissions?  See the FAQ:

 http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/majordomo-faq.html#2.1

Read the whole 2.1 section, or at least page down to The Wrapper.

> Thanks.

Regards,

Joe
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