[Mailman-Users] Mailman CGI error!!!

[jpsota at gmail.com]

John,

Thanks for the reply. I actually didn't build from source -- I
installed via yum, and it looks like there's a mailman group and user
already. Should I just try to manually install?

thanks,
jim


On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 11:26:36 -0500, John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 18:40 -0500, jpsota at gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm getting the following error after I configured mailman as per
> > instructions. Can someone please shed light on this? I can give you
> > system details -- please just ask.
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > jim
> >
> >
> > Mailman CGI error!!!
> > The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being
> > stored in your syslog:
> >
> > Failure to lookup via getgrgid() the group info for group id -1 that
> > this Mailman CGI wrapper is executing under.
> > This is probably due to an incorrectly configured system and is not a
> > Mailman problem
> 
> I suspect you omitted either Step 1 or Step 2 of the INSTALL
> instructions:
> 
> Step 1:
>    - Add a new user called `mailman'.  ...
>    - Add a new group called `mailman'.  ...
> 
> Step 2:
> 
>    TAKE SPECIAL NOTE OF THE --with-mail-gid AND --with-cgi-gid
>    OPTIONS BELOW.  ...
> 
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