[Mailman-Users] Desperate plea for help ....

[Orion (Steve Pirk)]

I replied to this once before I believe... Have you tried using
"1" instead of "12"? I would mess around with various settings,
trying it each time.

Make sure you "make install" as user mailman. I could be that some
of the files cannot be exec'd properly because of permissions....

Steve
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On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Pete Phillips wrote:

> 
> Hi
> 
> Last desperate plea for help otherwise I will have to go back to using 
> SmartList.....
> 
> I haven't had any responses to my 2 posts about the wrapper program
> problem. I'm assuming it's because I am doing something idiotic, but
> *any* response would be appreciated - either detailed help (very
> welcome) or just "the compilation flag should be X instead of Y".
> 
> So, here is my problem again.  Remember - it's SmartList next :-)
> 
> Pete
> --------------------------
> Hi
> 
> I too am experiencing problems with 2.0.1 mailman and the wrapper GID
> problem. Enclosed below are, hopefully, enough snippets for someone to
> solve the problem.
> 
> Firstly - yes, I have followed the INSTALL (as I understand it), read
> the FAQ, searched the python.org archives, and searched all of this
> years mailman digests.
> 
> Anyway...
> 
>         Platform:  Red Hat Linux 6.0 , Kernel 2.2.17 on an i686
>         Mailman: 2.0.1        MTA: sendmail-8.11.0
> 
> On sending the confirmation reply to a subscription request, I get the 
> following in my sendmail log:
> 
>         Mar 1 11:53:58 ds9 Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec
>         script. WANTED gid 1, GOT gid 12.  (Reconfigure to take 12?)
> 
> Here is my configuration line:
> 
>         ./configure  --prefix=/share/store/mailman-2.0.1
>         --exec-prefix=/share/store/mailman-2.0.1/linux
>         --with-extra-inc=/share/links/include
>         --with-extra-lib=/share/links/linux/lib 
>         --with-mail-gid='mail'
>         --with-cgi-gid='nobody' 
>         --with-cgi-extension='.cgi'
> 
> (BTW - I tried with numerical gid 12 instead of 'mail' - I get the
> same problem. )
> 
> As you can see, it is configured for 12/mail (see group file entry below).
> 
> 
> However, if I run the following by hand:
>            /share/mailman/linux/mail/wrapper mailcmd test2
> 
> I get 
> 
>         Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 0.
>         (Reconfigure to take 0?)
> 
> I.e., the wrapper here seems to understand that gid of 12 is required, 
> but it is getting 0 (because I ran this as root from the command line
> ?).
> 
> My sendmail.cf contains the following:
>            O DefaultUser=8:12
> 
> My /etc/group file contains:
>            mail::12:mail
> 
> 
> Also: 
>       ls -al /etc/smrsh/wrapper
>       lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           33 Aug  8  2000 /etc/smrsh/wrapper 
> --> /share/mailman/linux/mail/wrapper
> 
> Any help *deeply* appreciated :-)
> 
> Pete
> 
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