Dear mailman-users,
I am upgrading from mailman-1.1 to 2.0beta4 and am having a very difficult
and confusing time getting mailman to behave properly.
I issued the following commands to install mailman from the source directory:
./configure --with-mail-gid=mailman --with-cgi-gid=nobody
--prefix=/home/guest/mailman
sendmail stop
make install
sendmail start
I successfully created a list (abc_test) and subscribed myself. I received
a message indicating the fact (See Item 1 below), but was unable to receive
messages sent to the list.
Item 1:
From my inbox:
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 14:49:45 -0700 (MST)
From: abc_test-request(a)Ag.Arizona.Edu
To: aaryn(a)Ag.Arizona.Edu
Subject: Welcome to the "Abc_test" mailing list
Welcome to the Abc_test(a)Ag.Arizona.Edu mailing list!
When I send a message to the list, nothing happens. No errors are produced
in any logs that I know of, no bounces are sent to myself as list
subscriber nor as mailman-owner (See Item 2).
Item 2:
Directory of mailman logs (note no errors, and no activity since the
successful list subscription)
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 0 Jul 31 14:50 error
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 150 Jul 31 14:49 smtp
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 64 Jul 31 14:49 subscribe
A message is logged to syslog that indicates the mail was sent (See Item 3).
Item 3:
From sylog:
Jul 31 15:26:59 ag sendmail[28557]: [ID 801593 mail.info]
PAA28554: to="|/home/guest/mailman/mail/wrapper post abc_test",
delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=Sent
But it just disappears. No messages pertaining to mailman are held in the
mail queue (We use sendmail 8.9.3). When I run mail/wrapper post from the
command line, I get the error "Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 259, GOT
gid 0. (Reconfigure to take 0?)." When I run bin/check_perms, I get the
message, "No problems found." This is what the permissions are on my mail
and scripts directory:
ag: /home/guest/mailman/ > ls -al mail
total 76
drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Jul 31 15:25 ./
drwxrwsr-x 17 mailman mailman 512 Jul 31 14:49 ../
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 36780 Jul 31 15:25 wrapper*
ag: /home/guest/mailman/ > ls -al scripts
total 54
drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Jul 31 15:25 ./
drwxrwsr-x 17 mailman mailman 512 Jul 31 14:49 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 1507 Jul 31 15:25 answer_majordomo_mail
-rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 9515 Jul 31 15:25 driver
-rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 2351 Jul 31 15:25 mailcmd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 2502 Jul 31 15:25 mailowner
-rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 1537 Jul 31 15:24 paths.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 285 Jul 31 15:26 paths.pyc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 3302 Jul 31 15:25 post
Okay, So I decide to reconfigure like it suggests: (Reconfigure to take 0?)
So I go back to the mailman source and type the following commands:
rm -rf /home/guest/mailman/*
./configure --with-mail-gid=0 --with-cgi-gid=nobody
--prefix=/home/guest/mailman
/etc/rc2.d/S88sendmail stop
make install
/etc/rc2.d/S88sendmail start
echo hi | mail abc_test
Now, at least, the bounce message comes to mailman-owner, but it says this:
Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 0, GOT gid 259. (Reconfigure to take
259?)554 "|/home/guest/mailman/mail/wrapper post abc_test"... unknown
mailer error 2
What the *$%# is going on here?
--sound of someone screaming, the telltale rain of a man pulling out his hair--
Sincerely yours,
Aaryn Olsson
University of Arizona
College of Agriculture
System Administrator
