[Mailman-Users] Question

[Christopher T. Griffiths]

Actually the last post for changing the DefaultUser to daemon worked.

Thanks for the help.

Chris



On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, James Strickland wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Christopher Schulte wrote:
> 
> > At 06:17 PM 7/21/99 +0000, you wrote:
> >  >Below is what I got when I sent to my test list.
> >  >
> >  >I am using sendmail 8.9.1 on freebsd 3.2 with mailman-1.0rc3.
> >  >
> >  >Any suggestions?? I have looked through the email archive with no such
> >  >luck althought it has been a long day and I am tired.
> >  >   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> >  >554 "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner test"... unknown mailer error 2
> > 
> > This looks to me like you did not configure the wrapper with the correct 
> > mail gid.
> 
> Maybe.  Maybe he's encountering the same yet-to-be-debugged problem I'm
> encountering (see my email of the Monday before last).  To prove which id
> sendmail is using I added an alias
> 
> gidtest: "|/usr/bin/id >/tmp/gidtest"
> 
> then sent mail to gidtest.  The result was:
> 
> % cat /tmp/gidtest
> uid=1(daemon) gid=1(daemon) groups=1(daemon)
> 
> This matches the default used in the install, plus I even tried
> reinstalling with --mail-gid=1 explicitly.  Still no luck.
> 
> If you think this test doesn't prove what I think it proves, please let me
> know.  Alas, I have been too busy to try to debug what's going on with
> Mailman.  FYI, I have successfully installed and am using Mailman 1.0b6 on
> another machine which is almost identical (FreeBSD, sendmail, Apache).
> Hence I am perplexed (and frustrated) by the refusal of something
> somewhere to just plain work. :-)  Note that at the time I installed
> Mailman the machine was running FreeBSD 2.2.something - this time I'm
> installing it on a FreeBSD 3.0 machine.  Maybe there's something in that..
> 
> Hopefully by the time I get some time to look at it again, 1.0 will be
> out. :-)
> 
> --
> James Strickland
> Perforce Software
> 
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Christopher T. Griffiths	        
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