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Paul Russell <[log in to unmask]>
Wed, 1 Aug 2012 14:42:40 -0400
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On 8/1/2012 2:09 PM, Nathan Brindle wrote:
> It might be helpful to know how it fails.
>
> However, LCMD on unix simply drops a .job file into LISTSERV's spool containing the command, and LISTSERV picks it up as if it had been emailed.  But it writes it from the user's logged-in address with the hostname of the machine it's coming from, so if the user is logged into  LISTSERV.SOMEUNI.EDU as "someuser", the command will come from [log in to unmask]
>
> If they're listed in the Owner= setting for their list as [log in to unmask], the command will fail because [log in to unmask] isn't a list owner.  This can be worked around by making [log in to unmask] a quiet owner of the list.
>
> That would be my first thought as to why she's having trouble.
>

I have to wonder why anyone other than the LISTSERV postmaster has login access
on the LISTSERV server.

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Paul Russell

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