[Mailman-Users] mailman won't send out mail

[Justin Rush]

While trying to do /sbin/service mailman start ... I get the following 
error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 524, in ?
    main()
  File "/var/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 319, in main
    check_privs()
  File "/var/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 274, in check_privs
    gid = grp.getgrnam(mm_cfg.MAILMAN_GROUP)[2]
KeyError: getgrnam(): name not found

I tried doing a rpm -U on the python devel package, but the error still 
persists.

On 31 Jul 2003, Jon Carnes wrote:

> First idea is to check to check out the FAQ, but the most common problem
> here is that you didn't: service mailman start
> 
> Good Luck
> 
> Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
> 
> On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 10:17, Justin Rush wrote:
> > Hi,
> >   I am trying to get mailman working on my new redhat 9 servers and 
> > mailman refuses to send out mail.  I tried copying my mailman directory 
> > from the working server (running redhat 7.3), but that didn't work.  I 
> > also tried installing the newest rpm 2.1-8.  I see in the maillog that it 
> > does recieve the mail:
> > 
> > Jul 31 09:12:36 hundo sendmail[20921]: h6VECahH020921: 
> > from=<jrush at somedomain.org>, size=866, class=0, nrcpts=1, 
> > msgid=<Pine.LNX.4.44.0307310927460.24367-100000 at xuthus.somedomain.org>, 
> > proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=mail.scout.wisc.edu [144.92.170.199]
> > Jul 31 09:12:36 hundo sendmail[20922]: h6VECahH020921: 
> > to="|/var/mailman/mail/mailman post test", 
> > ctladdr=<test at hundo.scout.wisc.edu> (8/0), delay=00:00:00, 
> > xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=31090, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
> > 
> > However, nothing follows after that line.
> > Sendmail will work just fine if I telnet to it and send mail, so mailman 
> > must be the problem.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any ideas?
> 

-- 
Justin Rush
Technical Specialist
Internet Scout Project
jrush at scout.wisc.edu