I'm trying to install mailman on a rebel.com netwinder (ARM processor, Linux 2.2.14, redhat-based). I installed Python 2.0 via an rpm I found on netwinder.org. seems to work okay.

# uname -a Linux imprint2 2.2.14-20000612 #1 Mon Jun 12 18:08:37 EDT 2000 armv4l unknown

# /usr/local/bin/python2.0 -V Python 2.0

I looked up the cgi user (in httpd.conf) and the mail user (in sendmail.cf)

# grep '^User ' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf User httpd

# grep DefaultUser /etc/sendmail.cf O DefaultUser=8:12

# grep :8: /etc/passwd mail:x:8:12:mail:/var/spool/mail:

here's my problem: configure says I don't have a mailman user.

[root@imprint2 mailman-2.0.4]# ./configure --with-python=/usr/local/bin/python --with-cgi-gid=httpd --with-mail-gid=mail loading cache ./config.cache checking for --with-python... /usr/local/bin/python checking Python interpreter... /usr/local/bin/python checking Python version... 2.0 checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for true... /bin/true checking for --without-gcc... no checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking whether #! works in shell scripts... yes checking for --with-var-prefix... no checking for --with-username... mailman checking for mailman UID... Traceback (most recent call last): File "conftest.py", line 1, in ? import pwd, string ImportError: /usr/local/lib/python2.0/lib-dynload/pwdmodule.so: ELF file OS ABI not 0 cat: conftest.out: No such file or directory

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 for details.

But I do:

# grep mailman /etc/passwd mailman:x:561:562::/home/mailman:/bin/bash

# grep mailman /etc/group mailman:x:562:mailman

what's going on? how do i fix this?

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