[Mailman-Users] Mailman in Digital UNIX

Christopher Kolar ckolar at admin.aurora.edu
Thu Dec 9 20:56:30 CET 1999


Juan Carlos Guel Lopez wrote:

> Hi to everybody!!!
>
> Recently I've installed Mailman in a Digital Unix 4.0, Phyton 1.5.2 and
> Mailman 1.1
>
> Everything works fine, but when a subscriber tries to some list
> it rejects the suscription and says something like that :
>
> Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 2
>
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 554 "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/wrapper post test"... unknown mailer error 2
>
> I've check the FAQ and related Help, but in the syslog everything works
> fine here it is an excerpt of syslog :
>
> Dec  8 12:22:44 ds5000 sendmail[4956]: AA04956:from=<cguel at ds5000.super.unam.mx
> >, size=284, class=0, received from local
> Dec  8 12:22:44 ds5000 Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec script.
> WANTED gid  536869264, GOT gid 24.  (Reconfigure to take 15?)
> Dec  8 12:22:44 ds5000 sendmail[15313]: AA04956: to="|/usr/local/mailman/mail/wr
> apper post asc", delay=00:00:00, stat=unknown mailer error 2
>
> I ask if I have to ReRun ./configure with mailGID=536869264 ???
>
> Actually Mailman has Group ID = mailman:*:24:
>
> I ask too if somebody tries to Install Mailman in Digital Unix 4.0 or
> OSF/1 4.0??

Howdy.  One of the hosts that we are using mailman on it running OSF 4.0d.  We had
the same problem for a while and you are right that the answer is running
./configure with the right --with-mail-gid.  We struggled with this until it dawned
on us to look in the sendmail.cf file to see which user/group was specified for
sendmail to run under.  What we found on our system (and sendmail was not heavily
customized) was that sendmail was running as GID daemon, which we never thought to
look at because we had no such problems under Solaris or Linux.  Our command line
was:

./configure --with-mail-gid=daemon

After doing make install it worked just fine -- and it only took us a week to think
of looking into the sendmail.cf file.

Cheers,

--chris


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