Installing Majordomo

To install Majordomo, connect to your Virtual Private Servers via Telnet or SSH and do the following. Install Perl5 on your Virtual Private Servers. Install the Majordomo software. Connect to your Virtual Private Servers via Telnet or SSH and do the following, depending on your Virtual Private Servers O/S. FreeBSD & Solaris [Majordomo 1.94.5] Issue this command: % vinstall majordomo Change the directory permissions for ~/usr, ~/usr/local, ~/usr/local/majordomo, and ~/usr/local/majordomo/Lists to 755: % chmod 755 ~/usr ~/usr/local ~/usr/local/majordomo ~/usr/local/majordomo/Lists In the majordomo.cf file, change the definition of the $whereami variable from YourCompany.COM to your domain name (see line 2). You can do this by using pico, a simple, easy to use UNIX text editor: % pico -w ~/usr/local/majordomo/majordomo.cf Feel free to edit any other configuration variable in usr/local/majordomo/majordomo.cf to your liking. Create E-Mail Aliases something like the following. # Majordomo Stuff majordomo: "|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper majordomo" owner-majordomo: list_manager_e-mail_address majordomo-owner: list_manager_e-mail_address For more help with configuring Majordomo lists for virtual sub-hosts, see Virtually Hosted Mailing Lists for Virtual Servers