[Mailman-Users] more 2.1.x upgrade issues

[Jon Carnes]

There is a specific README.POSTFIX file.  If you haven't read it yet,
you should.  If you have read it, you should look at it again more
closely.

HtH - Jon Carnes

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 15:06, Scott R. Every wrote:
> getting this error when submitting a post to any list:
> Feb 11 14:47:03 ov2 postfix/local[16243]: 7AB91804C: 
> to=<test_list at mail.emji.com>, relay=local, delay=0, status=bounced (Command 
> died with status 8: "/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post test_list". 
> Command output: Failure to find group name mailman.  Try adding this group 
> to your system, or re-run configure, providing an existing group name with 
> the command line option --with-mail-gid. )
> 
> now, we have recompiled mailman with every possible variation of 
> --with-mail-gid.  the group file looks like:
> root::0:root
> bin::1:root,bin,daemon
> daemon::2:root,bin,daemon
> sys::3:root,bin,adm
> adm::4:root,adm,daemon
> tty::5:
> disk::6:root,adm
> lp::7:lp
> mem::8:
> kmem::9:
> wheel::10:root
> floppy::11:root
> mail::12:mail
> news::13:news
> uucp::14:uucp
> man::15:man
> users::100:games,scott
> nogroup::-2:
> mailman:x:250:
> postfix:x:401:
> nobody:x:-2:
> postdrop:x:601:
> 
> 
> postfix version is 2.03 and it sends and receives mail with no problem.  it 
> almost appears like mailman is having a hard time seeing the groups.  the 
> exact same packaged install is working well on another machine also using 
> postfix.  does anyone have any ideas on how to debug this?
> 
> how does one go about finding out what group a program(postfix) is running 
> as?
> 
> we have been working on this about 14 hours straight with no end in sight. 
> no matter what we try to --with-mail-gid, we get the same message when 
> posting to a list.
> 
> any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> thanks
> 
> s
> 
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