Hi Aaryn,

I had the same problem when upgrading to 2.0b4.

I forgot to insert the cron job as specified in INSTALL. Until then all posts failed silently.

Chuck

Wrote Aaryn Olsson on Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 04:05:32PM -0700:

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@Ag.Arizona.Edu To: aaryn@Ag.Arizona.Edu Subject: Welcome to the "Abc_test" mailing list

Welcome to the Abc_test@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

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