[Mailman-Users] wrapper script run as nogroup

Todd Freedom_Lover at pobox.com
Mon Nov 24 22:57:10 CET 2003


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Jeremy Gilbert wrote:
> Okay, great.  I'm not sure about your explanation, but when I
> changed all the aliases and aliases.db files on my system to
> mailman:mailman ownership, everything is finally working.  By your
> explanation, Postfix must be running as gid mailman now.
>
> Thanks for the help, everyone.  Should this be added to the
> documentation somewhere?  I can usually find anything using the
> documentation, but I really don't think this information is in the
> documentation or FAQ anywhere.

Well, README.POSTFIX does say this:

      Make sure that the owner of the data/aliases and data/aliases.db
      file is `mailman' and that the group owner for those files is
      `mailman'.  E.g.:

      % su
      % chown mailman:mailman data/aliases*

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