(Apols if this is a duplicate - I think I sent the first one to an administrative address).

Hi

I too am experiencing problems with 2.0.1 mailman and the wrapper GID problem. Enclosed below are, hopefully, enough snippets for 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' - I get the 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

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