[Mailman-Users] a few details

[Oleg Dambaev]

Matt Herzog wrote:
> I'm running mailman-2.1.6 on NetBSD 3.0 Sparc64.
>
> 1. Mailman is user 1003, group 1003 and all the scripts and binaries in
> /usr/pkg/lib/mailman/Mailman are owned by root:mailman except for:
>
> -rw-r--r--   1 www   mailman  21200 Sep 10 21:02 Defaults.pyc
> -rw-r--r--   1 www   mailman   1116 Sep 10 21:20 mm_cfg.pyc
>
> 2. mailmanctl and qrunner are not running, and never have run to my knowledge.
>
> 3. ma /etc/postfix# /usr/pkg/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/pkg/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms", line 50, in ?
>       MAILMAN_GID = grp.getgrnam(MAILMAN_GROUP)[2]
> 	KeyError: 'getgrnam(): name not found: '
>
> 4. Postfix works fine sending and receiving from mutt.
>
> 5. The perms on the aliases data dir look like this:
>
> ma /var/db/mailman/data# ls -la
> drwxrwxr-x  2 mailman  mailman    512 Aug 28 13:56 .
> drwxrwxr-x  9 mailman  mailman    512 Aug 27 14:14 ..
> -rw-r-----  1 root     mailman     41 Sep 10 17:51 adm.pw
> -rw-rw----  1 mailman  mailman   1944 Sep 10 21:36 aliases
> -rw-r-----  1 mailman  mailman  65536 Sep 10 22:02 aliases.db
>
> 6. The aliases are not getting pulled into /etc/postfix/aliases from
> /var/db/mailman/data/aliases, which looks like this:
>
> # The ultimate loop stopper address
> mailman-loop: /var/db/mailman/data/owner-bounces.mbox
>
> # STANZA START: discuss
> # CREATED: Sun Sep 10 21:36:43 2006
> discuss:             "|/usr/pkg/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post discuss"
> discuss-admin:       "|/usr/pkg/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin discuss"
> discuss-bounces:     "|/usr/pkg/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces discuss"
> discuss-confirm:     "|/usr/pkg/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm discuss"
> discuss-join:        "|/usr/pkg/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join discuss"
> discuss-leave:       "|/usr/pkg/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave discuss"
> discuss-owner:       "|/usr/pkg/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner discuss"
> discuss-request:     "|/usr/pkg/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request discuss"
> discuss-subscribe:   "|/usr/pkg/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe discuss"
> discuss-unsubscribe: "|/usr/pkg/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe
> discuss"
> # STANZA END: discuss
>
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echo "mailman:*:92:" >> /etc/group

replace ``92'' with needed groupid