Re: Majordomo and errors, Help...

[anavarro vip eniac com]

On 24 Oct 98, at 1:19, Colin Cyr wrote:

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> 
> I get the 'Unknown mailer error 9'.  Upon a vast search (as the documentation 
> says squat) I've found it to say this is a perl related error.  As suggested I 
> verified all the permissions, the location of perl, the #! at the top of all 
> the scripts.
> 
> The following are my aliases:
> # Majordomo Base Aliases:
> majordomo:              "|/usr/local/majordomo-1.94.4/wrapper majordomo"
> owner-majordomo:        ccyr
> majordomo-owner:        ccyr
> 
> Any help?
> 
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Hi Colin:

First of all, I am new to linux also so..... double check before anything. 

I went to the process of installing Majordomo about a month ago. I am not 
sure of what mailer error 9 is right now but I believe it means sendmail can 
not find /usr/local/.... or it is a permission problem related to sendmail. I am 
not in linux right now so i can not look at the files and permissions, but this is 
what I did.

1. All sendmail errors goto /var/log/messages. You should look there to 
check what is going on.

2.In /etc/sendmail.cf increase the parameter LogLevel from 9 to 30 and 
restart sendmail. In this way you will see in detail what sendmail is doing.

3. Put majordomo userid (I called it majordom) as a trusted user same as 
root in sendmail.cf 

4. Verify that you have all the files required and that includes the files pointed 
to by the aliases. I am not in linux to check so I am doing it from memory but 
if you have problems you can email me directly.

5. Verify that the majordomo configuration file and the script used to 
configure majordomo when it is installed point to the same files and 
directories. The files pointed to by aliases should also be in those directories.

6. Don't forget the permissions of the directories. They affect sendmail.

7. Typo errors in the aliases were my number one problem.


sorry about my bad english

HTH

Regards, Agustin
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Anavarro vip eniac com
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