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Re: Majordomo eats all memory

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Zedalis)
Mon Oct 21 18:37:19 1996

Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 08:57:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Zedalis <tintype@exis.net>
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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.

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Stephen Zedalis           Exis Net Inc.
System Administrator      Hampton Roads' Premier Internet Provider
tintype@Exis.Net          Web Page: http://www.Exis.Net
                          Email: support@Exis.net          
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