[Mailman-Users] Strange error when replying to subscription message confirmation

[Richard Barrett]

At 10:14 24/01/2002 -0700, Phillip Davis wrote:
>Hello, I have read around quite a bit and have gotten nowhere so far.  I 
>send a request for subscription to my new mailman server w/ a new group I 
>created and I get the reply back stating I need to confirm, but when I do 
>reply to confirm, I get a weird bounce from the script it is piped to, 
>this is the bounce message...
>
>{address snipped}: Command died with status 2:
>     "/var/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd davis_family". Command output: Failure
>     to exec script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 99.  (Reconfigure to take 99?)
>Reporting-MTA: dns; {address snipped}
>Arrival-Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 01:09:52 -0700 (MST)
>
>Final-Recipient: rfc822; davis_family-request@{address snipped}
>Action: failed
>Status: 5.0.0
>Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; Command died with status 2:
>     "/var/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd davis_family". Command output: Failure
>     to exec script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 99.  (Reconfigure to take 99?)
>
>now, gid 12 is mail and 99 is nobody, is this a config option or something 
>I can edit out of the python scripts somewhere ? how do I reconfigure to 
>99 or fix so that it DOES use 12?

This is a Mailman configuration problem. See the section "2. Running 
Configure" of the Mailman INSTALL document and the use of the 
--with-mail-gid option on the ./configure command. It looks like you want 
to set this option to --with-mail-gid=mail when you run configure.

>or is this a problem w/ postfix, and if so how do I fix it?
>
>Thanks
>
>Phil
>
>
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