[Mailman-Users] mailman user not found

[Paul Schreiber]

I'm trying to install mailman on a rebel.com netwinder (ARM processor, 
Linux 2.2.14, redhat-based). I installed Python 2.0 via an rpm I found on 
netwinder.org. seems to work okay.


# uname -a
Linux imprint2 2.2.14-20000612 #1 Mon Jun 12 18:08:37 EDT 2000 armv4l 
unknown

# /usr/local/bin/python2.0 -V
Python 2.0

I looked up the cgi user (in httpd.conf) and the mail user (in 
sendmail.cf)

# grep '^User ' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
User httpd

# grep DefaultUser /etc/sendmail.cf
O DefaultUser=8:12

# grep :8: /etc/passwd
mail:x:8:12:mail:/var/spool/mail:

here's my problem: configure says I don't have a mailman user. 

>[root at imprint2 mailman-2.0.4]# ./configure 
>--with-python=/usr/local/bin/python --with-cgi-gid=httpd --with-mail-gid=mail
>loading cache ./config.cache
>checking for --with-python... /usr/local/bin/python
>checking Python interpreter... /usr/local/bin/python
>checking Python version... 2.0
>checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
>checking for true... /bin/true
>checking for --without-gcc... no
>checking for gcc... gcc
>checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
>checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
>checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
>checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
>checking whether #! works in shell scripts... yes
>checking for --with-var-prefix... no
>checking for --with-username... mailman
>checking for mailman UID... Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "conftest.py", line 1, in ?
>    import pwd, string
>ImportError: /usr/local/lib/python2.0/lib-dynload/pwdmodule.so: ELF file 
>OS ABI not 0
>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 for details.

But I do:

# grep mailman /etc/passwd
mailman:x:561:562::/home/mailman:/bin/bash

# grep mailman /etc/group
mailman:x:562:mailman


what's going on? how do i fix this?

Paul

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