[Mailman-Users] mailman stopped working after upgrade

[Daevid Vincent]

> Yes, it has the flags, but what is the value of the ${MAILGID}
> parameter?  The error message you received says it's 'mailman' and
> should be 'mail'.
> 
> Your original post says:
> 
> >daevid portage-logs # ll /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman
> >-rwxr-sr-x  1 mailman mailman 7768 Sep  7 11:34 
> /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman
> 
> Thus, the wrapper was recompiled with the upgrade on Sep 7 and that's
> when things quit working so this is the likely cause.

# id mail
uid=8(mail) gid=12(mail) groups=12(mail),408(shadow)

# id mailman
uid=280(mailman) gid=280(mailman) groups=280(mailman),16(cron)

# ls -l /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman
-rwxr-sr-x  1 mailman mailman 7768 Sep 12 15:47
/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman

I tried to emerge mailman again today just incase that helped. Same results.

daevid portage-logs # ll *mailman*
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 62662 Sep  7 11:34 3485-mailman-2.1.5-r4.log
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1105 Sep  7 11:34 3486-mailman-2.1.5-r4.log
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 62663 Sep 12 15:47 3528-mailman-2.1.5-r4.log
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1105 Sep 12 15:48 3529-mailman-2.1.5-r4.log

>From the .log file:

checking for --with-permcheck... yes
checking for --with-username... mailman
checking for user name "mailman"... okay
checking for --with-groupname... mailman
checking for group name "mailman"... okay
checking permissions on /usr/local/mailman... okay
checking for mail wrapper group; i.e. --with-mail-gid... mailman
checking for CGI wrapper group; i.e. --with-cgi-gid... apache

I am using Exim as my MTA BTW:

[ebuild   R   ] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r1  +X -dnsdb -exiscan -exiscan-acl +ipv6
-ldap -lmtp -mailwrapper -mbox +mysql -nis +pam +perl -postgres -sasl +ssl
-syslog +tcpd 1,401 kB 

But I don't believe that's changed since:

daevid portage-logs # ll *exim*
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 23369 Jul  7 00:57 3190-exim-4.50-r1.log
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   242 Jul  7 00:57 3191-exim-4.50-r1.log