Re: [Lurker-users] Permissions errors

[Wesley W. T. <we...@te...>]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Gerald Livingston <
ger...@sy...> wrote:

> > A better test would be to make your sell script:
> > "touch /tmp/test-file". Then run it and see who
> > created/owns /tmp/test-file.
>
> nobody:nogroup
>

Well that would explain why you can't write to the lurker database.

LDA's like procmail require a local user so they can get around the
> chroot.


I'm not sure what you mean here. chroot has nothing to do with user
accounts; it just changes the root directory.


> I'm using ecartis as a mailing list manager and it "just works"
> with nothing but aliases.
> list1: "|/usr/lib/ecartis/ecartis -s list1"
>

Interesting. Perhaps it's setuid? Or perhaps there is a setting somewhere
else that instructs the MDA to setuid for it.