AW: [Mailman-Users] want gid 500 not 100

[mailinglists at belfin.ch]

Thanks a lot, that was the solution. Works now!

Philipp


> On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 12:45, mailinglists at belfin.ch wrote:
> 
> Re-install Mailman and in the ./configure step use a switch 
> to point the
> mail-gid to 100.
> 
> The GID being mentioned is the Group ID of the MTA (in this 
> case 100) -
> not the GID of the Mailman user.  The GID of the MTA user is 
> needed, as
> it is the MTA user that is actually going to run the Mailman wrapper
> program (the program that is complaining).
> 
> As a security precaution only root, mailman, and the MTA can run the
> wrapper program.
> 
> > <mailman-request at lists.seaan.net>: Command died with status 2:
> >     "/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman request mailman". 
> Command output:
> > Failure
> >     to exec script. WANTED gid 500, GOT gid 100.  
> (Reconfigure to take 100?)
> > 
> > 
> > checking the /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman it is group 
> mailman user
> > mailman both gid 500 and uid 500. 
> > to be precise hte directory looks like this:
> > 
> > -rwxr-sr-x    1 mailman  mailman     38452 Oct  7 15:06 mailman
> > 
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong?
> > 
> 
> Not reading the FAQ
> > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
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Good Luck - Jon Carnes