[Mailman-Users] mailman-owner,aaryn at ag.arizona.edu,lab

[Dan Mick]

> When I send a message to the list, nothing happens.  No errors are produced 
> in any logs that I know of, no bounces are sent to myself as list 
> subscriber nor as mailman-owner (See Item 2).

Are you certain it's not in qfiles?

Did you update crontab as INSTALL says to do?

Is mailman's gid 259?

> But it just disappears.  No messages pertaining to mailman are held in the 
> mail queue (We use sendmail 8.9.3).  When I run mail/wrapper post from the 
> command line, I get the error "Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 259, GOT 
> gid 0.  (Reconfigure to take 0?)."  When I run bin/check_perms, I get the 
> message, "No problems found."  This is what the permissions are on my mail 
> and scripts directory:
> 
> 
> 	ag: /home/guest/mailman/ > ls -al mail
> 	total 76
> 	drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman      512 Jul 31 15:25 ./
> 	drwxrwsr-x  17 mailman  mailman      512 Jul 31 14:49 ../
> 	-rwxr-sr-x   1 root     mailman    36780 Jul 31 15:25 wrapper*
> 
> 	ag: /home/guest/mailman/ > ls -al scripts
> 	total 54
> 	drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman      512 Jul 31 15:25 ./
> 	drwxrwsr-x  17 mailman  mailman      512 Jul 31 14:49 ../
> 	-rw-r--r--   1 root     mailman     1507 Jul 31 15:25 
answer_majordomo_mail
> 	-rw-r--r--   1 root     mailman     9515 Jul 31 15:25 driver
> 	-rw-r--r--   1 root     mailman     2351 Jul 31 15:25 mailcmd
> 	-rw-r--r--   1 root     mailman     2502 Jul 31 15:25 mailowner
> 	-rw-r--r--   1 root     mailman     1537 Jul 31 15:24 paths.py
> 	-rw-r--r--   1 root     mailman      285 Jul 31 15:26 paths.pyc
> 	-rw-r--r--   1 root     mailman     3302 Jul 31 15:25 post
> 
> Okay, So I decide to reconfigure like it suggests: (Reconfigure to take 0?)
> 
> So I go back to the mailman source and type the following commands:
> 
> 	rm -rf /home/guest/mailman/*
> 	./configure --with-mail-gid=0 --with-cgi-gid=nobody 
> --prefix=/home/guest/mailman
> 	/etc/rc2.d/S88sendmail stop
> 	make install
> 	/etc/rc2.d/S88sendmail start
> 	echo hi | mail abc_test
> 
> Now, at least, the bounce message comes to mailman-owner, but it says this:
> Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 0, GOT gid 259.  (Reconfigure to take 
> 259?)554 "|/home/guest/mailman/mail/wrapper post abc_test"... unknown 
> mailer error 2
> 
> What the *$%# is going on here?
> 
> --sound of someone screaming, the telltale rain of a man pulling out his 
hair--
> 
> Sincerely yours,
> Aaryn Olsson
> University of Arizona
> College of Agriculture
> System Administrator
> 
> 
> 
> 
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