Re: [LI] Majordomo query

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <r.suresh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake Syed Khader Vali:

> which is the HOME dir for majordomo ??
> /usr/lib/majordomo or /var/lib/majordomo ??

Try this - which majordomo and whereis majordomo.  Same case with, say,
PERL or <g> Sendmail.  Anything like this will be in several directories,
but ~you~ will only call it from one specific directory - say /usr/lib or
/usr/local/bin or whatever.

> On muh system, /var/lib/majordomo is owned by majordomo and contains
> lists dir, but wrapper says the default is /usr/lib/majordomo which is
> owned by majordomo and the wrapper says it is wrong if i 'touch' Log

/usr/lib/majordomo will contain the files you need to point to.

> int that dir which makes me assume that /var/lib/majordomo is the real
> HOME dir and hence I need to edit /etc/majordomo.cf to reflect that !!

No.  Majordomo works quite well out of the box, so you don't need to hack
majordomo.cf to change /etc/ to /var/lib.  You have to hack it to include
your own filters (close the list to non subscribers, moderate all posts /
posts from non subscribers etc etc).

Everything can be managed by changing the cf file.

Try MajorCool (a kewl web based interface for majordomo - needs a
javascript enabled browser for cutest effect) :)

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