[Mailman-Users] Apparently missing methods.

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Sat May 3 16:27:35 CEST 2003


It  says that there is no "mailman" group (as in /etc/groups).
How did you install Mailman?  If that is missing, then there are bound
to be other problems.

On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 13:05, Chris Johnson wrote:
>      Hi,
> 
>      Newbie here, to mailman anyway.  
> 
>      Have the following problem.
> 
> service mailman start
> 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
> 
> 
> Now, according to the following Web page
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg17359.html
> 
> this has been seen before.  I have rh9 and the python-2.2.2-26 rpm's.
> AND I've installed all the rpm's that were in the rh9 distribution.
> I'm confused.  I don't know python that well.  But it seems obvious
> something is missing.  Here's what's installed
> 
> python-2.2.2-26
> gnome-python2-bonobo-1.99.14-5
> python-docs-2.2.2-26
> python-optik-1.4-2
> rpm-python-4.2-0.69
> mod_python-3.0.1-3
> gnome-python2-gtkhtml2-1.99.14-5
> gnome-python2-canvas-1.99.14-5
> gnome-python2-1.99.14-5
> libxml2-python-2.5.4-1
> python-devel-2.2.2-26
> python-tools-2.2.2-26
> 
> what am I missing here?  Anyone have a clue?  Help appreciated.  Thank
> you.
> 
> 
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