[Mailman-Users] Errors after installing Postfix
Charles W. Statkus
Chuck at Statronics.com
Fri Jan 5 14:46:12 CET 2001
I can't get rid of this:
Jan 5 09:40:24 mail postfix/local[29125]: 75172FBD:
to=<test at internetstockmarket.
com>, relay=local, delay=0, status=bounced (Command died with status 2: "
/home/ma
ilman/mail/wrapper post test". Command output: Failure to exec script.
WANTED gid
501, GOT gid 99. (Reconfigure to take 99?) )
I have done the following many times:
Problem: I use Postfix for my MTA and the mail wrapper programs are logging
complaints about the wrong GID.
Solution: Create a separate aliases file for Postfix in its main.cf config
file under the variable alias_maps. Put the file somewhere in Mailman's home
directory, or somewhere else where the user mailman has write access to it;
as user mailman call Postfix's postalias on the alias file.
% postalias the-alias-file
Also as user mailman, run
% python -c'import os; print os.getgid()'
This should print out the group id that Mailman should be configured to
expect when the mail wrapper programs are run. Call it thegid. Rebuild
Mailman with
% ./configure --with-mail-gid=thegid
I also tried --with-mail-gid= 501 and --with-mail-gid= mailman
The alias file works, I can redirect aliases.
What do I do next?
Thanks,
Chuck
[root at mail /home]# ls -l
total 28
.....
drwxrwsrwx 18 root mailman 4096 Jan 5 09:38 mailman
[root at mail mailman]# ls -l
total 2980
drwxrwsr-x 8 mailman mailman 4096 Jan 5 09:35 Mailman
-rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 1661 Jan 5 09:38 aliases
-rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 20480 Jan 5 09:38 aliases.db
drwxrwsr-x 4 mailman mailman 4096 Dec 25 10:50 archives
drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4096 Jan 5 09:35 bin
drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4096 Jan 5 09:35 cgi-bin
-rw------- 1 root mailman 2916352 Dec 25 12:07 core
drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4096 Jan 5 09:35 cron
drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4096 Jan 5 09:35 data
drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4096 Jan 5 09:35 filters
drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4096 Jan 5 09:35 icons
drwxrwsr-x 4 mailman mailman 4096 Dec 30 10:19 lists
drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4096 Jan 5 09:46 locks
drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4096 Dec 29 21:39 logs
drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4096 Jan 5 09:35 mail
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 22 Dec 30 10:08 memb
drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4096 Jan 4 17:12 qfiles
drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4096 Jan 5 09:35 scripts
drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4096 Dec 25 10:50 spam
drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4096 Jan 5 09:35 templates
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 35665 Dec 30 09:42 wrapper
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