[Mailman-Users] Need troubleshooting help

[Chadd Hudson]

I've only been using this for about two months so my terminology may not be
the most accurate but I also ran into this problem.  Roughly- Your mail
agent (sendmail, postfix) is getting the mail dropped into it from the wrong
user (from w/in mailman).  From what I can see, in mailman you basically
have a user (mine is mailman) that will collect the mail for the mailman
program and "drop" it into the mail program (sendmail, postfix, etc).
Remember when you ran the "./configure" command right before the "make
install"?  Well, there is a note in the installation instructions (step 2
actually) that says to pay special attention to the "-with-mail-gid
AND -with-cgi-gid".  I didn't and that problem kicked my butt for days.  I
finally figured out that the mail-gid should be the one for mailman and the
cgi-gid should be the id for apache.  If I remember correctly you can look
inside the passwd file and see all the user id's for the system. This is all
from memory and I'm away from my linux box at the moment so I can't verify
everything I said but I think it's right.  If not, it should get you moving
in the right direction..
Hope this helps.
Chadd

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	mailman-users-admin at python.org
[mailto:mailman-users-admin at python.org]  On Behalf Of Bill Poff
Sent:	Tuesday, July 02, 2002 11:25 AM
To:	Mailman-Users at Python. Org
Subject:	[Mailman-Users] Need troubleshooting help

I'm a Mailman newbie trying to learn how to admin a system without a manual.

Can anyone offer me a suggestion on how I might fix this problem.

<test at lists.icn.net>: Command died with status 2: "/var/mailman/mail/mailman
    post test". Command output: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 41, GOT
gid
    99.  (Reconfigure to take 99?)


Bill



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