Very Computer

First, by looking at the manual pages and the documents that come on
the CDROM I noticed a disagreement that is very confusing (same happened
with ELM and SMAIL). On one part it says the list software is to be
located in /usr/local/mail (subdirectories lists and majordomo), and
in some places it makes reference to /usr/lib/majordomo. (I am not at
my PC now so I MAY have missed a directory in the path or /usr/local/)

The /usr/local/mail directory did not exist so I created it and its
subdirectories and list files as indicated in the documentation of
Majordomo., so in the end the perl scripts and some executables are
stored in /usr/local/mail/majordomo/ .  Later I discovered that these
scripts and execs are already (from the installation script I guess)
in /usr/lib/majordomo !!!! so which is which?

I created (based on the sample) the /etc/majordomo.cf file.

The documentation mentions that there must be an aliases file in
/etc/aliases.... There was no such file! however I did find a file
called /usr/lib/aliases (I think it was there) which had a few lines
of aliases. I appended the lists aliases to this file, but I still
don't know what directories these thing is going to use.

Can anybody shed some light on this?

With that setup I sent a subscribe message to the list I defined, the

and user name) and got nothing back after some seconds of disk
cracking.

When I sent a subscribe message as grimaldo (and grimaldo is also the
owner of the list), user grimaldo (me) only got (after a lot of disk
activity) a message from majordomo asking for approval of the user
(wasn't that supposed to be an open list?), so I sent the approval

(listname is my list;s name) and after some disk activity NOTHING
happened, all the requests seem to go to /dev/null !!! originally
/dev/null was the shell specified in the /etc/passwd entry for
majordomo, I changed it to the majordomo script.

Also when I subscribed as user root, the owner of the list got
no approval request, root got nothing back either...

Anyway, no matter what I do nothing seems to happen to my commands.
Am I missing something?

Please reply to my acct.
                Thanks in advance,
                                Emilio    
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Second: smail does not like continuation lines as in the examples
of Majordomo. Use long lines instead and this should fix the problem.

If all goes wrong test majordomo manually by typing

cat | /usr/????/majordomo/wrapper majordomo

And type in a simple Mail like

From: sample_user
To: majordomo

lists

Then you can see any errors printed by the Perl-Interpreter (if there are
some).

Frank.