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

[Dan Mick]

>         Mar 1 11:53:58 ds9 Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec
>         script. WANTED gid 1, GOT gid 12.  (Reconfigure to take 12?)

And this means *EXACTLY* what it says.  The script wanted to be run with a GID
of 1.  But it got 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. )

You must not be running the wrapper you think you're
running.  Perhaps the install step didn't actually work.

> 
> 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?)