[Mailman-Users] more help with mailman configure and GID

[Christopher Adams]

I honestly like it when my questions are skimmed over. It makes me
realize that I have way more resources to fix things than I initially
think.

In this case, it was a "simple" case of the mailman /etc/passwd user
entry showing a GID that didn't match the /etc/group mailman entry. I
did try changing the /etc/group mailman entry to the actual GID that
it was looking for, but the mailman installation broke. Eventually, I
noticed that there was a mismatch.

So, all should be okay. Thanks for ignoring me.

On 8/29/07, Christopher Adams <adamsca at gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, another migration, another GID problem. I configured mailman to
> run as mail GID=mailman (which is 502) and cgi-gid = apache (which is
> 48). The configuration and installation went fine and check_perms
> showed no problems.
>
> Setting up lists works okay. However, when I try to send a mesage to
> the list, I get this:
>
>  test7 at myserver.com on 8/29/2007 11:36 AM
>             Failed (Command died with status 8:
> "/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post test7". Command output: Failure
> to    find group name for GID 1004.  Mailman expected the mail wrapper
> to be    executed as group "mailman", but the system's mail server
> executed the    wrapper as GID 1004 for which the name could not be
> found.  Try adding GID    1004 to your system as "mailman", or tweak
> your mail server to run the    wrapper as group "mailman".)
>
> Why is it looking at mailman GID=1004 when it is 502? Mailman UID is
> 1004, but not GID.  I tried reconfiguring it with mail GID = nobody,
> which I have done before, but still get this message.
>
> Help is most welcome.
>
> --
> Christopher Adams
> adamsca at gmail.com
>


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Christopher Adams
adamsca at gmail.com