[Mailman-Users] "No mailman user found" error when building Mailman 2.1

[Jon Carnes]

Quoting from the Archives:
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I've had this exact same problem installing mailman on solaris. The
problem is in getting python configured properly. Make sure
LD_LIBRARY_PATH points to all the right places, including wherever the
SSL
libraries live, and you may have to hack the Modules/Setup file in the
python build directory so the appropriate modules are built and
installed.
Also check out the README file, the section labeled "Configuring
additional built-in modules." 

Good luck!

-Tom Shore
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On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 12:15, Steve Rifkin wrote:
> Having problems installing mailman 2.1 on a Solaris 8 Ultra 10 machine using GCC 
> 3.2.1 and python 2.2.2
> 
> I'm installing as mailman, and the configure dies with (see more below):
> 
> 
> mailman> ./configure --prefix=/users/mailman --with-python=/usr/local/bin/python 
> --with-cgi-gid=65534 --with-mail-gid=1
> 
> creating cache ./config.cache
> checking for --with-python... /usr/local/bin/python
> checking Python interpreter... /usr/local/bin/python
> checking Python version... 2.2.2
> checking that Python has a working distutils... yes
> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/local/bin/install -c
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
> checking for true... /usr/local/bin/true
> checking for --without-gcc... no
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
> checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking whether #! works in shell scripts... yes
> checking for --with-var-prefix... no
> checking for --with-permcheck... yes
> checking for --with-username... mailman
> checking for user name "mailman"... Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "conftest.py", line 1, in ?
>     import pwd
> ImportError: No module named pwd
> cat: conftest.out: No such file or directory
> configure: error: 
> ***** No "mailman" user found!
> ***** Your system must have a "mailman" user defined
> ***** (usually in your /etc/passwd file).  Please see the INSTALL
> ***** file for details.
> 
> ========================================================
> 
> As you can see below, mailman DOES exist (I'm logged in as mailman).
> 
> 
> mailman> grep mailman /etc/passwd
> mailman:x:10:44:mailadm LOCAL:/users/mailman:/bin/csh
> 
> mailman> whoami
> 
> How can I get past this error?  Is it a python error?  If so, what would you 
> suggest I do get the build to find the correct pwd module?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Steve Rifkin
> steve410 at cs.jhu.edu
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