[16788] in Athena Bugs
Re: Returned mail: Service unavailable
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Mon Apr 5 11:39:50 1999
To: Carla Fermann <carla@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-olc@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Apr 1999 10:07:05 EDT."
<3.0.5.32.19990405100705.00834100@po10.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 11:39:39 EDT
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> This is a different error message from the "permission denied" one it would
>> send when the acl got messed up, so I think this might somehow be related
>> to the changes over the weekend.
Oops, you caught me. The new olcm binary was installed mode
700 and owned by root, and sendmail was trying to execute it as daemon.
It's fixed now.
>> Also, I'm if it being sent to olc-acl is significant at all. I didn't
>> think I knew that list existed, but I was the last one to modify it
>> (in 1994) and am its only member, so I must have at one point. I
>> don't think it's been used in quite a while, though, or what it's
>> really for.
olc-acl is signficant only in that it's the owner of the list
olc, so the bounce message was directed there. The other olc-topic
lists that act as mail feeds to the queue are all owned by olc_adm, so
it might be worthwhile to decide which one is the accepted standard, and
change the others to be consistent.
Garry