[Mailman-Users] Virtual Domain: Failure to exec script... GOT gid 65535

[Mike Bridge]

Oops, evidently I screwed it up the first time I tried to patch it.
Once I set this manually and overwrote it, it started working.

I guess that makes me happy, but I *was* all ready with my
large wooden computer-smashing club.

-Mike



On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 03:00:28PM -0700, Amanda wrote:
> Blargh. I've had my share of ugly UID/GID tangles, but that's a new one on me...  May I recommend a large, heavy,
> blunt object for percussive maintenance? (Some things just have to be beated into submission.)
> 
> =)
> Amanda
> 
> 
> Mike Bridge wrote:
> 
> > Ah, I think I see where it's getting set.  In the "vdeliver.cc" that
> > comes with linuxconf (http://www.solucorp.qc.ca) there are
> > a couple lines that say:
> >
> >         setgid (65535);
> >         setuid (65535);
> >
> > However, I tried setting these by hand to the uid and gid of
> > mail, but this doesn't work (it thought it was running as ROOT,
> > which is not a good thing :)
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 01:33:03PM -0700, Amanda wrote:
> > > Hi Mike...
> > >
> > > Who/what is holding GID 65535? That might tell something useful...
> > >
> > > =)
> > > Amanda
> > >
> > >
> > > Mike Bridge wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi-
> > > >
> > > > I have a problem running mailman 2.0.6 on a Redhat Linux 7.0 machine.
> > > > I'm running sendmail 8.11.0 and linuxconf 1.24r5's version of
> > > > vdeliver.  I am using a "virtual" domain to receive the messages.
> > > > I have configured mailman to use mail's gid as per the instructions,
> > > > because this is what sendmail uses.
> > > >
> > > > I can subscribe myself to the mailing list and I receive the message
> > > > ok.  However, when I post to the list, I get:
> > > >
> > > >   Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 65535.  (Reconfigure to take 65535?)
> > > >
> > > > I don't want to reconfigure to use 65535 because that sounds insecure,
> > > > and it would break a mailing list using the non-virtual domain (which works
> > > > fine).  There is a closed bug report here, but it doesn't give any info
> > > > on how to solve it:
> > > >
> > > >   http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=103&atid=100103&aid=211347&func=detail
> > > >
> > > > Hers is my delivery agent configuration:
> > > >
> > > >   # Special mailer for virtual email domain hosting
> > > >   Mvirtual,       P=/usr/lib/linuxconf/lib/vdeliver, F=lsDFMShP, S=10, R=20/40,
> > > >                   A=vdeliver $u $h
> > > >
> > > > I understand the F=S is supposed to set the "effective gid" to the gid of
> > > > the parent sendmail process.
> > > >
> > > > I also see that there is another closed bug at
> > > >
> > > >   http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=103&atid=100103&func=detail&aid=214154
> > > >
> > > > which mentions the egid vs. gid problem....  I dunno exactly whether this
> > > > is what causes this.
> > > >
> > > > There are lots of posts from a year or so ago on the mailing lists
> > > > about this issue, but with no solutions.  Has anyone figured out
> > > > how to solve it?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for any help!
> > > >
> > > > -Mike
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Mike Bridge
> > > > <mike at bridgecanada.com>
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> > <mike at bridgecanada.com>
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Mike Bridge 
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