Thanks to: Tim Evans
Bill Houle
Jonathan Loh
Matt Reynolds
It was suggested that perhaps the problem was with using tar to copy
everything over to the new drive because tar sometimes breaks sym links.
The four who replied offered alternate ways to move everything (using cpio
or ufsdump). It turned out that the problem was unrelated to this drive
movement and happened at the same time by coincidence. We noticed that
/var was quite full and the blank message problem stopped once we cleared
up some space for the mail. Although something still isn't quite right
(the last message I sent from that machine sat in the queue for 3 hours
before being sent), majordomo is working fine now.
The original problem:
I can't determine for sure whether this is a Solaris administration type
problem or if it's a Majordomo problem, but I'm hoping somebody here will
have a suggestion. I have tried the Majordomo FAQ, majordomo-user mailing
list archives and mailing the list itself, but haven't come up with
anything related to this problem. I am running Majordomo 1.94.4 with
sendmail 8.8.6 and perl 5.004 on a Solaris 2.4 machine. We have Majordomo
installed in "/export" on our machine. We needed a bigger /export
partition, so we used "tar" to copy everything over to a new drive and
then mounted this new drive as /export and commented out the old /export
entry in the vfstab. Nothing has changed as far as the path or
permissions of any of Majordomo's files/directories, but since we did
this, we've been running into some unusual problems. We also have all of
our ftp and web directories in /export but haven't had any problem with
either of those, so I'm not sure what's going on.
We have a test list set up for trouble shooting purposes. When anyone
sends mail to the test list, the list owner gets the following message:
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:29:24 -0500
From: owner-test@our.machine
To: owner-test@our.machine
Subject: BOUNCE test@our.machine: This may be hard to believe, but there
was no "From:" fieldin this message I just received. I'm not gonna
send it out, but you can...
With other lists (for example, our list called "calmit"), any message that
is sent doesn't go through, but each subscriber gets the following message
with an empty body:
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 09:10:05 -0500
From: owner-calmit@our.machine
Apparently-To: calmit-outgoing@our.machine
Majordomo isn't logging anything suspicious and any commands sent to
majordomo work fine. I have tried sending things to the lists using
"sendmail -v" and everything looks normal.
-- Jenny Partusch | CALMIT jenny@tan.unl.edu | 113 Nebraska Hall UNIX Systems Administrator | University of Nebraska - Lincoln (402) 472-7556 | Lincoln, NE 68588-0517
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