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Nathan Brindle <[log in to unmask]>
Fri, 3 Mar 2000 18:55:22 EST
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On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 12:13:11 -0500 you said:
>It turns out that none of the file permissions in spool were changed
>directly.  I was logged in running lcmd at the time.  I recall that I thought
>it wasn't working properly, so I ran a backup copy of the binary.  The backup
>copy, I didn't realize, was owned by root, not the listserv id.  I'm guessing
>this caused the problem?  If so, I won't do that next time. :)

It wouldn't surprise me, since all lcmd under unix does is dump a .job
file into LISTSERV's spool.  If lcmd is owned by 'root' then the job
it dumps will probably be owned by 'root' as well.

Nathan

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