[Mailman-Users] newbee question.

[Andy Carpenter]

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.

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Dr Andy Carpenter
Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester M13
9PL, UK
Email: Andy.Carpenter at cs.man.ac.uk Tel: +44 161 275 6168 Fax: +44 161 275
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>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 at spock.xm.klm.nl>, relay=root at 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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