[Mailman-Users] GID (again but archives don't help)

[Roelf Schreurs]

Thanks that helped.

I thought the problem was with the "--with-username=1086" but indeed it 
was with "--with-mail-gid=6".



Odhiambo Washington wrote:

> * Roelf Schreurs <rosc at imc.nl> [20020813 00:36]: wrote:
> 
>>Hi
>>
>>I just installed mailman 2.1b3
>>
>>uid=1086(mailman) gid=1086(mailman) groups=1086(mailman)
>>
>>./configure --prefix=/opt/mailman --with-username=1086 --with-groupname=1086
>>
>>su-2.05a$ ls -l
>>-rwxr-sr-x  1 mailman  mailman  18005 Aug 12 15:37 mailman
>>
>><mailman at imc.nl>: Command died with status 2: "/opt/mailman/mail/mailman 
>>post
>>    mailman". Command output: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 1086, 
>>GOT gid
>>    65534.  (Reconfigure to take 65534?)
>>
>>uid=1001(postfix) gid=1002(postfix) groups=1002(postfix)
>>running postfix
>>
>>I recompiled with gid 65534 but that still didn't work.
>>Any help please?
>>
> 
> 
> While I haven't read any postfix related READMEs, all I had to do was just
> worry about two things, mail-gid and cgi-gid. Now I know just so well that
> my MTA (Exim) has a gid=6 and apache has a gid=80 so life was simple because
> I did not want to tweak the rest. So if I were you, I'd use the following
> (change 6 and 80 to reflect yours). Group ids are listed in /etc/group for
> the OSes I know ;-)
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/mailman --with-mail-gid=6 --with-cgi-gid=80
> make install
> 
> 
> 
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