[Mailman-Users] Red Hat 9 - Mailman not working out of the box

[Peter Russell]

Hi I am a bit of a Linux newbie, i have installed red hat 9 inc sendmail,
apache and mailman. I got sendmail working easily and apache. Then i set up
my first list and tried to email it, but all email goes to root.

So i ran the newaliases and restarted sendmail, then i tried to restart
mailman servcice, but i get an error. I have not changed any user accounts
or groups from the default install, and i cant find the doco on the machine
re mailman.

I get the following error when trying to start the mailman service (as root
from SSH console)

Is there any other info i can provide to make assisting me easier? I am
becoming quite desperate. (in regards to mailman :) Should mailman work out
of the box on red hat, or is there a doco i can follow somwhere?

Many thanks in advance
Pete

                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                 
 Executing /etc/rc.d/init.d/mailman restart ..                                                                   
                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                 
 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                                                                            
                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                 


the env command gives
HOSTNAME=major
SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=vt100
HISTSIZE=1000
USER=root
LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=01;32:

.cmd=01;32:*.exe=01;32:*.com=01;32:*.btm=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.sh=01;32:
*.csh=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:
*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:
*.tz=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:
*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.tif=01;35:
USERNAME=root
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/root
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
PWD=/
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHLVL=1
HOME=/root
BASH_ENV=/root/.bashrc
LOGNAME=root
LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s
G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1
_=/bin/env
OLDPWD=/var/mailman




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