[Mailman-Users] install problem

Todd Freedom_Lover at pobox.com
Thu Mar 6 22:18:23 CET 2003


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Kimsey Pollard wrote:
> System is Redhat 8
> (I must be overlooking the obvious)
> No errors are reported during configuration
[...]
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman"
> (reason: 8)
> (expanded from: <mailman at dhcp5.mirc.gatech.edu>)
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 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.
> 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 8
> Reporting-MTA: dns; dhcp5.mirc.gatech.edu

Well, the error is telling you it can't find the mailman group.  Normally,
the install complains (and dies, IIRC) if the mailman user and group are not
present.

Try adding the mailman group as the error message suggests.

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