[Mailman-Users] GID trouble

[Len Merikanto]

On Fri, 18 May 2001, Enriko Groen wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I'm trying to get Mailman running on a FreeBSD 4.2 system.
> MTA is Postfix. Took me some time to get some things running.
> 
> I now have the web interface up, however I run into problems with the
> wrapper.
> 
> When I send an email to the request adres of the list I get to following
> error message back:
> 
> "<sletivity-request at test.netivity.nl>: Command died with status 2:
>     "/usr/local/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd sletivity". Command output:
>     Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 65534, GOT gid 1005.  (Reconfigure to
>     take 1005?)"
> 
> 
> However I did configure with GID 1005 (which is the mailman group, default).
> I tried to configure mailman with GID 65534 to which resulted in the same
> error only with:
> 
> "WANTED gid 1005, GOT gid 65534."
> 
> 
> I did check the Common Problem item which mentions Postfix and wrong GID
> problems. Did not help.
> 
> BTW: GID 65534 is nobody
> 

I had similar problems until i debugged /etc/group file to correct one.
Never really done inspection on groups file but after i got it right and
got it reconfigured with correct GID its been working fine and no whines.

whats in your /etc/group about mailman?



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