> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Erik Reuter

...

> Are there any files in the /root/ directory with names similar to the
> one it tried to access? It is quite strange for even a legitimate Linux
> daemon to try to right a file directly into /root/. The file had a
> nonsense name, like something that would normally go into /tmp/, or
> possibly a log file, but I have never seen a log from a standard daemon
> kept in /root/

That was the first thing I checked and no, nothing like that in /root.  And
nothing like that string in Mailman's logs.  (And by the way, Mailman's
scripts -- it's written in Python -- do *not* run as root.)

> Even if it was chroot'ed, it would be good to know which daemon actually
> tried to write to /root/ in that manner. It may have a bug that should
> be fixed.

The good news is that the new version on the new server rejected that
message completely when I sent it there.

Nick

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