[Mailman-Users] Problem with the dreaded mail GIDs

[Jon Carnes]

Is your system using "smrsh"?  If so, you will have to put a link in the
/etc/smrsh directory for /home/mailman//mail/wrapper.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Coles" <simon at coles.to>
To: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 5:06 PM
Subject: [Mailman-Users] Problem with the dreaded mail GIDs


> Hi,
>
> I've been trying for the past couple of evenings to get Mailman working on
> my system - its a RedHat 7.1 machine with the Ensim control panel
installed
> (not that I wanted Ensim; but I don't think it matters for this).
>
> My sendmail.cf has the following in:
>
>   O DefaultUser=8:12
>
> So I configure Mailman with:
>
> ./configure --with-cgi-gid="www www-data apache
nobody" --with-mail-gid="12"
>
> And then I do
>   make clean;make install
>
> When I try to post to a list, I get
>
> Mar 21 16:55:00 ensim sendmail[11168]: g2LLt0o11167:
> to="|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner outlook-03-2002",
> ctladdr=<outlook-03-2002-admin at mailman.coles.org.uk> (8/0),
delay=00:00:00,
> xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=138400, dsn=4.0.0, stat=Operating system
> error
>
> And the mail is left in the queue with "Operating system error"
>
> If I su to "mail", I can invoke from the command line
>
>   /home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner outlook-03-2002
>
> Just fine. If I su to nobody (or anyone else) it gives an error message
> about the wrong GID.
>
> I've tried different --with-mail-gid options, including:
>   - "mail"
>   - "mail, nobody"
>   - "12, 99, 0"
>
> If you give it multiple values, the configure script seems to pay
attention
> only to the last one; the installation instructions seem to imply you can
> have multiple values for this field.
>
>
> I'm going mad here; does anyone have any tips? I appreciate its probably a
> simple configuration error, but I'm getting to despair :-(.
>
>
> Many thanks for any help,
>
>
>
>
> Simon
>