At 13:48 05/09/2002 -0700, George Crum wrote:

Hello, I'm having trouble getting configure to run on a Solaris 8 server. Here is the configure command that I issue and the resulting error.

./configure --prefix=/export/home/mailman --with-mail-gid=25 --with-cgi-gid=1004

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: No module named pwd cat: cannot open conftest.out

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.

I have created the user mailman and a group called mailman. Plus created the home directory /export/home/mailman.

Has anyone out there compiled Mailman on Solaris 8?

• George Crum

This looks line a python installation problem and not a Mailman specific problem.

pwd is a standard python module used to access the password database on Unix systems and the error message you are getting is python saying that the module cannot be imported.

You can confirm (or deny) this proposition by running python from the command line and trying to use pwd. For instance on my test system I get:

Python 1.5.2 (#12, Oct 15 1999, 16:24:36) [C] on sunos5 Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam

...

...

import pwd pwd.getpwnam('barrett') ('barrett', 'x', 500, 101, 'Richard Barrett', '/u/barrett', '/usr/local/bin/bash') pwd.getpwnam('mailman') ('mailman', 'x', 601, 601, 'Mailman Maillist Manager account', '/u/mailman', '/usr/local/bin/bash')

If you get an import failure after typing the import pwd line then you need to look to your python installation for the problem.