[Mailman-Users] Problem with beta5

Doug Curtis doug at world-mail.org
Wed Aug 2 22:55:31 CEST 2000


I had a similar problem when I installed using the numerical gid that the 
sendmail.cf said it was using. Once I used the non-numerical gid, "mail", 
it started working fine.  I found out the name from the /etc/group file.

Doug

> On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Pete Holsberg wrote:
> 
> > I installed beta 5 on a sparc running solaris 2.7, and the
> > install (including bin/check_perms) was fine.
> > 
> > I created a test list and subscribed a dummy person. The
> > email system complained as afoows:
> > 
> >    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner test"
> >     (expanded from: <test-admin at viking>)
> > 
> >    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 500, GOT gid 1.  (Reconfigure to 
take 1?)
> > 554 "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner test"... unknown mailer 
error 2
> 
> I reinstalled using --with-mail-gid=1 to match what
> sendmail had as the default user.
> 
> Is it sendmail that's generating the "WANTED..GOT.."
> message?
> 
> Thanks,
> Pete
> 
> 
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