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Re: Majordomo eats all memory
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Senie)
Mon Oct 21 18:34:46 1996
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:00:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
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On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Stephen Zedalis wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Daniel Senie wrote:
>
> > Anyone set up majordomo on RH 4.0? I'm having a problem in which it eats
> > all of the virtual memory in the system and then dies (better than
> > under RH 2.1, where it ate all the VM and make the machine freak out).
> > This bug is mentioned in the Majordomo FAQ, but it sounds like they don't
> > know the cause. They mention the log directory might not be writeable,
> > but it is...
>
> Every time I have seen this, it has been a permissions problem. Majordomo
> is very finicky about permissions. Another good resource for majordomo
> is the book "Managing Internet Information Services" by O'Reilly. It has
> 2-3 chapters on majordomo.
Not sure if I posted the final solution to the RedHat list (I think I did
on the majordomo list). The configuration info for majordomo asks for a
log path. THEY MEAN A FILE. I just assumed it was to be a directory, and
created a directory. Don't do that...
Dan
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