[Mailman-Users] struggling with "minor" mailman upgrade

[Albert E. Whale]

Skip,

Ran into the same problem myself.  The difference you are reporting is the wrapper program in /etc/smrsh and in
/home/mailman/mail/.

It's difficult to maintain separate copies or to update the copies as necessary.  You should change the
/etc/smrsh/wrapper entry into a Logical link in /home/mailman/mail/wrapper.  That way when you update the
/home/mailman/mail/wrapper program the same happens in the /etc/smrsh/wrapper.

Imagine if you will having a separate mailman_wrapper file because the Majordomo Utility is still active on your
server.  Yet another level of complexity.

This should put you back on the path.  HTH.

Skip Montanaro wrote:

> Over the past week I have upgraded several bits and pieces of the machine
> from which I run a small number of Mailman-administered mailing lists.  Mail
> still isn't flowing, the natives are getting restless, and I'm about to
> throw my laptop out the window.  I'm hopeful someone here can steer me in
> the right direction.
>
> I am running Mandrake 8.1, sendmail 8.12.1 and mailman 2.0.8.  Any time I
> try to post a message to the mailing list I get the following barf from
> smrsh:
>
>        ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
>     "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner cedu"
>         (reason: Service unavailable)
>         (expanded from: cedu-admin )
>
>        ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>     smrsh: wrapper not available for sendmail programs
>     554 5.0.0 Service unavailable
>
> /usr/sbin/smrsh was compiled with /etc/smrsh as its CMDDIR, verified with
> the strings command:
>
>     # strings -a /usr/sbin/smrsh | egrep /etc
>     /etc/smrsh
>
> /etc/smrsh contains a link to /home/mailman/mail/wrapper:
>
>     # ls -l /etc/smrsh/wrapper
>     lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           26 Mar 14  2001 /etc/smrsh/wrapper -> /home/mailman/mail/wrapper*
>
> which, when dereferenced, seems fine to me:
>
>     # ls -lL /etc/smrsh/wrapper
>     -rwxr-sr-x    1 skip     mailman     39212 Dec 10 13:41 /etc/smrsh/wrapper*
>
> If I run the above wrapper command manually, it complains:
>
>     # /home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner cedu
>     Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 0.  (Reconfigure to take 0?)
>
> This I don't understand, because the program is clearly set gid to the
> mailman group (which happens to be gid 70, not 12 or 0 - gid 12 is the mail
> group).  Mailman was configured as
>
>     ./configure  --with-mail-gid=mail --with-cgi-gid=nogroup
>
> I tried configuring with-mail-gid=mailman instead and got:
>
>        ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
>     "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner cedu"
>         (reason: 2)
>         (expanded from: cedu-admin )
>
>        ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>     Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 70, GOT gid 12.  (Reconfigure to take 12?)
>     554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 2
>
> FWIW, /usr/sbin/sendmail is setgid smmsp (gid == 25).  Should that be the
> with-mail-gid?
>
> Before upgrading from Mandrake 7.2 to 8.1 I was happily using sendmail
> 8.12.0 and mailman 2.0.6.  After the upgrade I fell back to sendmail 8.11.6
> and my problems began.  Today I installed sendmail 8.12.1 and upgraded to
> mailman 2.0.8.
>
> Any suggestions appreciated...
>
> --
> Skip Montanaro (skip at pobox.com - http://www.mojam.com/)
>
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