[Mailman-Users] Reinstalling mailman

Pete Holsberg pjh at mccc.edu
Sat Nov 27 19:23:07 CET 1999


Never mind. I decide to upgrade to 1.1, and tha tmesage
doesn't occur.

Thanks,
Pete


On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Pete Holsberg wrote:

> We just upgraded from an old Debian Linux to RH 6.0x. The
> mailman user exists.
> 
> I ran configure and I get:
> 
> checking whether #! works in shell scripts... (cached) yes
> checking for mailman UID...   File "conftest.py", line 1
>     import pwd, string
>     ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> cat: conftest.out: No such file or directory
> 
> configure: error: 
> ***** No "mailman" user found!
> ***** Your system must have a "mailman" user defined (usually
> ***** in your /etc/passwd file).  Please see the INSTALL file
> ***** file details.
> 
> What does that signify?





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