[Mailman-Users] Installation on Mac OSX

[Michael Johnson]

On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 01:49 PM, Thomas Hillson wrote:

> Did you look in the /etc/passd and /etc/group to see if the user and 
> group were actually placed there. OS-X does not put all the users and 
> groups in /etc files as it does not use them for all its functions. It 
> uses the Net-Info files which are different and not all users and 
> groups that I can created on my OS-X computer are in the passwd and 
> group files.
>
I just placed them there a moment ago, then re-ran the ./configure 
script and got:

checking for mailman UID... ./configure: permission denied: conftest.py 
[1152]
/usr/local/bin/python: can't open file 'conftest.py'
cat: conftest.out: No such file or directory

configure: error:
***** No "mailman" user found!
***** Your system must have a "mailman" user defined
***** (usually in your /etc/passwd file).  Please see the INSTALL
***** file for details.

I know there is a mailman user...I added it using niutil and have 
confirmed it's there.  I also added the user and groups to the passwd 
and group files.

from passwd:
mailman:*:5990:5990:Mailman List Server:/Users/mailman:/bin/tcsh

from group:
mailman:*:5990:mailman

-Michael