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if test -z "$MAILMAN_UID" then cat > conftest.py <<EOF import pwd, string uid = '' for user in string.split("mailman"): ^^^^^^^ try: try: uid = pwd.getpwuid(int(user))[0] break except ValueError: uid = pwd.getpwnam(user)[0] break except KeyError: uid = '' fp = open("conftest.out", "w") fp.write("%s\n" % uid) fp.close() EOF $PYTHON conftest.py MAILMAN_UID=cat conftest.out fi

echo "$ac_t""$MAILMAN_UID" 1>&6 rm -f conftest.out conftest.py if test -z "$MAILMAN_UID" then { echo "configure: error: ***** No \"mailman\" user found! ^^^^^^^ ***** Your system must have a \"mailman\" user defined (usually ***** in your /etc/passwd file). Please see the INSTALL file ***** file details." 1>&2; exit 1; } fi

It's not the UID that's the problem, its that the username is expected to be the literal string 'mailman'.

The configure script fails, never generating the Makefile you keep telling me to edit.

So a --with-username=NAME is in order.

-Jeremy

On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Saille Warner Norton wrote:

Run configure. Then edit the makefile to change the mailman_uid variable. Then compile. It will compile mailman under whatever UID you gave it.

Worked when I did it.

Saille

At 09:28 PM 01/14/2000 -0600, you wrote:

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Except that 'mailman' is hardcoded into lots of places, including the configure[.in] script. It doesn't get far enough to generate a Makefile.

-Jeremy

On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Saille Warner Norton wrote:

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Try editing your "MAILMAN_UID" option in your Makefile.

At 04:47 PM 01/14/2000 -0600, Jeremy Shaffner wrote:

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Why isn't there a configure option to install Mailman as a user other than 'mailman'? A --with-username=NAME would be excellent.

I ask because 'mailman' has already in use by one of our users. Probably a postal worker. :)

-Jeremy

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