Mailman 3 March 2001 - Mailman-Users

Problems with the wrapper program - *Lots* of detail.
by Pete Phillips March 1, 2001

March 1, 2001

Hi I too am experiencing problems with 2.0.1 mailman and the wrapper GID problem. Enclosed below are, hopefully, enough snippets someone to solve the problem. Firstly - yes, I have followed the INSTALL (as I understand it), read the FAQ, searched the python.org archives, and searched all of this years mailman digests. Anyway... Platform: Red Hat Linux 6.0 , Kernel 2.2.17 on an i686 Mailman: 2.0.1 MTA: sendmail-8.11.0 On sending the confirmation reply to a subscription request, I get the following in my sendmail log: Mar 1 11:53:58 ds9 Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 1, GOT gid 12. (Reconfigure to take 12?) Here is my configuration line: ./configure --prefix=/share/store/mailman-2.0.1 --exec-prefix=/share/store/mailman-2.0.1/linux --with-extra-inc=/share/links/include --with-extra-lib=/share/links/linux/lib --with-mail-gid='mail' --with-cgi-gid='nobody' --with-cgi-extension='.cgi' (BTW - I tried with numerical gid 12 instead of 'mail' - same problem. ) As you can see, it is configured for 12/mail (see group file entry below). However, if I run the following by hand: /share/mailman/linux/mail/wrapper mailcmd test2 I get Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 0. (Reconfigure to take 0?) I.e., the wrapper here seems to understand that gid of 12 is required, but it is getting 0 (because I ran this as root from the command line ?). My sendmail.cf contains the following: O DefaultUser=8:12 My /etc/group file contains: mail::12:mail Also: ls -al /etc/smrsh/wrapper lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Aug 8 2000 /etc/smrsh/wrapper -> /share/mailman/linux/mail/wrapper Any help *deeply* appreciated :-) Pete -- Pete Phillips, Deputy Director, | Visit http://www.smtl.co.uk/ Surgical Materials Testing Lab, | A web site dedicated to medical Princess of Wales Hospital, S. Wales| disposables, dressings, wound care Fax: +44 1656-752830 pete(a)smtl.co.uk| and biosurgery (maggot therapy).

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no response after confirmation
by Heiss Konrad March 1, 2001

March 1, 2001

Hi I've installed mailman completly new from the debian dpkg Everything is running fine except: if a user subscribes, he get the confirmation mail. He replys the mail and GET NO SUBSCRIPTION. In the mailman log this User is marked as "pending" I use exim as MTA and I know, there where additional adjustings with earlyer Versions of mailman. But I cannot find any remarks about using exim? You can visit my Server running mailman (to see all config-files): use: ssh server: mail.aio4u.com user: gast password: passwd Please return a tip where I can get help! Heiss Konrad

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demime.pl with smrsh
by Clark E. Morgan March 1, 2001

March 1, 2001

Hi folks,if someone could lend me a hand here, I would be grateful. I'm trying to use demime.pl with the following recommended hook in aliases. foo: "|/home/mailman/mail/demime.pl - |/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post foo" but i get back the following error: ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/home/mailman/mail/demime.pl - |/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post shaka" (expanded from: <foo(a)bar.org>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- sh: cannot use | in command 554 "|/home/mailman/mail/demime.pl - |/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post shaka"... Service unavailable So I'm thinking it's the pipe into a pipe that is creating the problem. I'm running smrsh and am not sure if the limitation is being imposed there or not. I do have the approp sym links for both the mailman wrapper and demime.pl in sm.bin. Has anyone seen this and can recommend a viable solution? Thanks Clark E. Morgan

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Changing servers and upgrading at the same time
by Paul Barnett March 1, 2001

March 1, 2001

I looked through the archives and didn't find anyone posing the same or similar question, so.... I'm currently running Mailman v1.1 on a Redhat 5.2 system. I'm building a replacement server with RedHat 7.0, and am curious what is the easiest and reliable way to switch the mailing list(s) to the new server, while upgrading to Mailman 2.0.1. Do I: (1) Install Mailman 2.0.1 on the new server and somehow copy the subscription info and archives to the new server? (2) Copy the existing Mailman 1.1 installation to the new server and then upgrade it to 2.0.1? (3) Some other alternative? Suggestions are welcome.

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Medusa?
by Bob Tanner Feb. 28, 2001

Feb. 28, 2001

Can Medusa <http://www.nightmare.com/medusa/README.html> be used to increase mailman performance? -- Bob Tanner <tanner(a)real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9

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Virtual host details?
by Fred H Olson Feb. 28, 2001

Feb. 28, 2001

Hi, I am list owner of a list being moved to a Mailman 2.0 system (which is fairly recently installed by other folks here in Minneapolis). I only have access to the WWW interface to list admin functions. I have not read the system admin docs - did not want to download the tarball etc... I have read mention of "virtual host" and "virtual domain" in various places but have not seen a discussion of the topic. I assume that this refers to a list appearing to be at a chosen domain other than where Mailman is running. How is this done? I have set my mailman-users sub to nomail mode so CC's of response direct would be appreciated. Thanks, Fred BTW setting digest mode as default does not seem to apply to mass subscribes (they get subscribed in regular mode). Is this a feature or a bug? -- Fred H. Olson fholson(a)cohousing.org Minneapolis,MN 55411 (612)588-9532 Amateur radio: WB0YQM List manager of: Cohousing-L and Nbhd-tc (Twin Cities Neighborhood issues list)

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