Nathan,

My apologies for not being more explicit.

Yes, I'm running on UNIX (Solaris 8). I do have the lsv_amin set to 4755 and
I think everything is setup correctly. Unfortunately, I didn't do the
installation.....I'm just doing the configuration/setup, so I can't vouch
for the accuracy of the setup. However, I have /opt/listserv/bin/lsv_amin
and /opt/listserv/bin/lcmd both owned by listserv and 4755 perms. I have the
appropriate entries in /etc/aliases for the listserv and also for my test
mailing list (which I created via wa). I did notice that the installer had
setup the aliases a little incorrectly, not using the correct LSVSPOOL
directory, which I corrected. Now, what is happening is when I send an email
with just a simple "thanks", I see the answer sitting in the mailq. It
doesn't seem to be a LISTSERV issue at this point, more like something with
my sendmail configuration. I'm looking into it. However, I still don't know
what I'm doing wrong with the "mailing" method of list creation. Possibly
POSTMASTER permissions?

--Scott

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Brindle [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 9:51 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Creating lists
>
>
> I think confusion arose when you referred to the file-to-mail
> operation
> as "command line".  To us "command line" means using lcmd or lcmdx to
> issue one-line commands to LISTSERV.  The 'mailx listserv < filename'
> business is just another mail interface to us, although
> you're correct,
> you run it from the command line :)
>
> If your attempt to send mail to the server to create a list
> failed then
> it sounds like the server is not properly configured to accept mail.
> Didn't you say that the message simply sat in the spool and was not
> processed?  This usually implies that permissions and/or ownership are
> set incorrectly on the lsv_amin program invoked by sendmail to get the
> mail into the spool.  (This <is> unix, correct?)  lsv_amin must run
> 'suid listserv' so that the files it creates in the LISTSERV spool
> directory are owned by 'listserv' and have appropriate permissions
> such that 'listserv' can read and write them.  This means
> that lsv_amin
> must be owned by 'listserv' and have permissions 4755.  (Assuming that
> you installed LISTSERV per the instructions in the installation guide,
> ie with 'make install', this should have been done automatically.)
>
> So the big question at this point is whether or not the server can
> even accept mail.  Can you send mail to listserv@ your server and
> get a response?  If not then you need to look into the issues raised
> in the paragraph above.
>
> Nathan
>