[Mailman-Users] Check_perms bombs out.

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "MSL" == Maren S Leizaola <maren at leizaola.com> writes:

    MSL> 	This is what I get when I run check perms. Mailman runs
    MSL> fine... 

    MSL> Any clues as to how to fix this in case I do need check
    MSL> perms?

It means your file has a gid that isn't in your groups database.
Here's a patch for check_perms.

-Barry

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Index: check_perms
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RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/mailman/bin/check_perms,v
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -c -r1.10 check_perms
*** check_perms	1999/11/26 08:51:35	1.10
--- check_perms	1999/12/21 05:32:59
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*** 54,62 ****
                  continue
              raise
          if gid <> MAILMAN_GID:
              arg.ERRORS = arg.ERRORS + 1
              print path, 'bad gid (has: %s, expected %s)' % (
!                 grp.getgrgid(gid)[0], MAILMAN_GRPNAME),
              if STATE.FIX:
                  print '(fixing)'
                  os.chown(path, -1, MAILMAN_GID)
--- 54,66 ----
                  continue
              raise
          if gid <> MAILMAN_GID:
+             try:
+                 groupname = grp.getgrgid(gid)[0]
+             except KeyError:
+                 groupname = '<anon gid %d>' % gid
              arg.ERRORS = arg.ERRORS + 1
              print path, 'bad gid (has: %s, expected %s)' % (
!                 groupname, MAILMAN_GRPNAME),
              if STATE.FIX:
                  print '(fixing)'
                  os.chown(path, -1, MAILMAN_GID)