[Mailman-Users] MI:3 - Installing Mailman on Solaris

[Matt Lavergne]

In your postfix configuration files there should be a line that specifies
what user and group postfix runs as. It looks as if you have it set to run
as nogroup and all you should have to do is change that to run as group
postfix

Matt Lavergne
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Schmitt" <martin at schmitt.li>
To: <mailman-users at python.org>; <sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 2:42 PM
Subject: [Mailman-Users] MI:3 - Installing Mailman on Solaris


> (This goes to the Mailman-Users list as well as the Sun Managers list. My
> troubleshooting skills are at their very final end here.)
>
> Hi everyone, once again.
>
> I've returned to yet another attempt at installing Mailman 2.0.9 on my
shiny
> new Solaris 8 box, and all I'm getting is:
>
> Apr 17 13:09:36 vortex Mailman mail-wrapper: [ID 702911 mail.error]
Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 59999, GOT gid 60001.  (Reconfigure to
take 60001?)
> Apr 17 13:09:36 vortex postfix/local[12816]: [ID 197553 mail.info]
27FA03846E: to=<testlist-request at f00.net>, relay=local, delay=0,
status=deferred (Command died with status 2: "/home/mailman/mail/wrapper
mailcmd testlist". Command output: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 59999,
GOT gid 60001.  (Reconfigure to take 60001?) )
>
> I'm not an idiot, at least not completely, I hope. I know that this is
being
> dealt with in a FAQ somewhere, I've read and followed it a few weeks ago,
> but I can't work it out. What more am I supposed to do than rm -Rf'ing
> everything Mailman related and starting over from scratch making really
sure
> everything is configured right? You know, retrying over and over gets old
> after a few attempts. I've even backed away from my /opt layout and let
> mailman install to the default location /home/mailman, all to no avail.
>
> I configured Mailman like this:
>
>
./configure --with-username=mailman --with-groupname=mailman --with-cgi-gid=
httpd --with-mail-gid=postfix
>
> # grep postfix /etc/passwd /etc/group
> /etc/passwd:postfix:x:59999:59999::/bin/false:/bin/false
> /etc/group:postfix::59999:
>
> # grep mailman /etc/passwd /etc/group
> /etc/passwd:mailman:x:59994:59994::/home/mailman:/bin/sh
> /etc/group:mailman::59994:
>
> # grep httpd /etc/passwd /etc/group
> /etc/passwd:httpd:x:59996:59996::/home/httpd:/bin/false
> /etc/group:httpd::59996:
>
> # grep 60001 /etc/passwd /etc/group
> /etc/passwd:nobody:x:60001:60001:Nobody:/:
> /etc/group:nobody::60001:
>
> # python -V
> Python 2.2
>
> # ls -la /home/mailman
> total 40
> drwxrwsr-x  18 mailman  mailman      512 Apr 17 12:53 .
> drwxr-xr-x   5 root     other        512 Mar 17 03:04 ..
> drwxrwsr-x   8 root     mailman     1536 Apr 17 13:03 Mailman
> drwxrwsr-x   4 root     mailman      512 Apr 17 12:53 archives
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman      512 Apr 17 12:54 bin
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman      512 Apr 17 12:54 cgi-bin
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman      512 Apr 17 12:58 cron
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman      512 Apr 17 13:04 data
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman      512 Apr 17 12:54 filters
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman      512 Apr 17 12:54 icons
> drwxrwsr-x   3 root     mailman      512 Apr 17 13:03 lists
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman      512 Apr 17 13:11 locks
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman      512 Apr 17 13:05 logs
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman      512 Apr 17 12:54 mail
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman      512 Apr 17 12:53 qfiles
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman      512 Apr 17 12:54 scripts
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman      512 Apr 17 12:53 spam
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman     1536 Apr 17 12:54 templates
>
> /home is a symlink to /usr/home on /usr, which is mounted with the
following
> options:
>
> /usr on /dev/md/dsk/d33
read/write/setuid/intr/largefiles/logging/onerror=panic/dev=1540021 on Sat
Mar 16 04:13:16 2002
>
> When sending mail to a list, all I get is:
>
> Apr 17 13:09:36 vortex Mailman mail-wrapper: [ID 702911 mail.error]
Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 59999, GOT gid 60001.  (Reconfigure to
take 60001?)
> Apr 17 13:09:36 vortex postfix/local[12816]: [ID 197553 mail.info]
27FA03846E: to=<testlist-request at f00.net>, relay=local, delay=0,
status=deferred (Command died with status 2: "/home/mailman/mail/wrapper
mailcmd testlist". Command output: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 59999,
GOT gid 60001.  (Reconfigure to take 60001?) )
>
> What is missing? Does anyone of you have Mailman running on Solaris with
> Postfix, like I'm trying to do? Does the Fallback to "nobody" has anything
> to do with Postfix security?
>
> The precise script in question looks like this:
>
> # ls -l /home/mailman/mail/wrapper
> -rwxr-sr-x   1 root     mailman    36536 Apr 17 12:54
/home/mailman/mail/wrapper
>
> The CGI interface works fine, BTW.
>
> Thanks in advance for all hints,
>
> -martin
>
> --
> I will talk and Redmond will listen.
>
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