Re: new to majordomo: very confused

hello,
I read this message several times just to make sure i had things right and 
understood them, well apparently i don't, i am still getting an error from 
the mailer anyway which says the directory is group writtable.  the error 
message however i copied this time if it will help.  the exact error was
    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
:include:/home/majordomo/md/lists/test
     (expanded from: <[email protected]>)

    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 5.2.4 :include:/home/majordomo/md/lists/test... Cannot open 
/home/majordomo/md/lists/test: Group writable directory
Receiving 2
the lines i payed attention to and added to my aliases were the ones below 
the "in your case" line

hope this becomes clear soon




On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Ed Kasky wrote:

> At 11:29 PM Monday, 2/5/2007, you wrote -=>
>> hello all,
>> I sure hope someone can help me with this big problem i have.  I don't know 
>> if for some reason this isn't sinking in or if the examples and docs are as 
>> clear as mud but..i got along fine making a non-digest list called test, 
>> did the aliases right and everything, but now when i read the part about 
>> creating aliases for the digest and archive its as clear as mud not to 
>> mention testing the digest and regular lists, i get a mailer-daemon error 
>> showing me that test has been expanded, and it tries to use the include 
>> line as the email address or something along that line, i have no clue what 
>> is going wrong and really can't explain it better than that. also, one doc 
>> says one thing, one says another way, half
>
> It would be good if you include the exact error.
>
>> way into the first doc, it seems like the person lost track  of the 
>> directory which doesn't help a newbie.  I am not new to linux at all, just 
>> new to mlm software
>> and if it helps, these are all the lines i have added to my 
>> /etc/mail/aliases file that werent there before, i.e excluding the 
>> mailer-daemon and postmaster.
>> 
>> also, i am using slackware 10.2 on a junky gateway p3(i know i know), 
>> 800mhz(not by choice)
>> so, here are those alias lines:
>> like i said, hope someone can clear this up for me
>> 
>> test: :include:/home/majordomo/md/lists/test
>
> Your test alias is supposed to be a command and you have it pointing to a 
> text file.  For example - and these include demime and archive:
>
> test: "|/usr/local/majordomo/demime '== /usr/local/majordomo/wrapper resend 
> -l test test-list,nobody'"
> test-list: :include:/usr/local/majordomo/lists/test, test-archive, 
> test-digestify
> test-digestify: "|/usr/local/majordomo/digest -r -C -l test-digest 
> test-digest-outgoing"
> test-digest: test
> test-digest-outgoing: :include:/usr/local/majordomo/lists/test-digest
> test-archive:  "|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper archive -f 
> /usr/local/majordomo/archives/test/test -a -M"
>
> In your case, you might try the following:
>
> test: "|home/majordomo/md/wrapper resend -l test test-outgoing,nobody"
>
>> test-outgoing: :include:/home/majordomo/md/lists/test, test-digestify
>> test-digestify: "|/home/majordomo/md/wrapper digest -r -C -l test-digest 
>> test-digest-outgoing"
>> test-digest: test
>> test-digest-outgoing: :include:/home/majordomo/md/lists/test-digest
>
> As you can see, I set my lists up slightly differently but it works just fine 
> if you can follow the logic....
>
> HTH,
>
> Ed
>
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