When you compiled mailman you specified what group id it would run under. This needs to match the group id that your web server runs. It looks like your web server runs as group staff (1), so you need to use this when you configure mailman prior to compilation.

Andy.

Dr Andy Carpenter Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK Email: Andy.Carpenter@cs.man.ac.uk Tel: +44 161 275 6168 Fax: +44 161 275 6280

hello * as a newbee in mailman land, I'm experiencing the following problem:

part of /var/log/maillog:

Mar 24 10:24:43 spock sendmail[10486]: Received message KAA10486: from user root: size is 40, class is 0, priority is 30040, and nrcpts=1, message id is <199903240924.KAA10486@spock.xm.klm.nl>, relay=root@localhost Mar 24 10:24:43 spock Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 6, GOT gid 1. (Reconfigure to take 1?) Mar 24 10:24:43 spock sendmail[15864]: KAA10486: to="|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner test_list", xdelay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=Unknown mailer error 2 Mar 24 10:24:43 spock sendmail[15864]: KAA10486: KAA15864: postmaster notify: Unknown mailer error 2 Mar 24 10:24:43 spock sendmail[10492]: KAA15864: to=root, xdelay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Sent

mailman record of my /etc/passwd file:

mailman:!:200:6::/home/mailman:/usr/bin/ksh

the /etc/group file:

system:!:0:root staff:!:1:xm20pb bin:!:2:root,bin sys:!:3:root,bin,sys adm:!:4:bin,adm uucp:!:5:uucp mail:!:6: security:!:7:root cron:!:8:root printq:!:9: audit:!:10:root ecs:!:28: nobody:!:4294967294:nobody,lpd usr:!:100:guest perf:!:20: shutdown:!:21: mailman:!:200:mailman

permissions of the wrapper:

-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 42932 Mar 24 10:21 wrapper

permissions of the /home/mailman/scripts directory:

drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Mar 24 10:20 . drwxrwsr-x 15 mailman mailman 512 Mar 22 18:07 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 1496 Mar 24 10:20 answer_majordomo_mail -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 2101 Mar 24 10:19 contact_transport -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 5028 Mar 24 10:19 deliver -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 8258 Mar 24 10:20 driver -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 1251 Mar 24 10:19 dumb_deliver -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 1787 Mar 24 10:20 mailcmd -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 1756 Mar 24 10:20 mailowner -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 1521 Mar 24 10:19 paths.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root mail 273 Mar 24 10:21 paths.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 2832 Mar 24 10:20 post

Where do I have to take the appropriate actions to get thing working properly.

I have ran configure several times followed by make ; make install The machine is IBM RS-6000 with AIX 4.2 and sendmail spock.xm.klm.nl ESMTP Sendmail AIX4.2/UCB 8.7 as shipped with AIX.

Who can help me.

regards Pieter.

-- Pieter G.J. Bos KLM Information Services building 878 room 1346 +31 (20) 6489313 Schiphol Rijk Po box 7700 1117 ZL Schiphol Airport

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