[Mailman-Users] After installing mailman under Gentoo linux, I get...

[James B. Snyder]

Are you using the alias files autogenerated for postfix?

I had to chown the {MAILMAN ROOT}/data/aliases and {MAILMAN
ROOT}data/aliases.db files to nobody.nobody and everything seems to work
ok.

On a side note, the /etc/mail/aliases seems to take precedence over the
mailman aliases, so if you need to temporarily divert mail you don't need
to edit the auto-generated aliases file.


> I did follow all the instructions in the README.gentoo.gz document, but
> still get the following error...
> What did I miss?
>
>
> Greetings,
>         Evert Meulie
>
> http://evert.meulie.net/     *     email : evert at meulie.net
>
>
> ===========================================================================================This
> is the Postfix program at host linux.meulie.net.
>
> I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
> below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.
>
> For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster>
>
> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own
> text from the message returned below.
>
> 			The Postfix program
>
> <mailman-request at linux.meulie.net>: Command died with status 2:
>     "/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman request mailman". Command output:
> Group
>     mismatch error.  Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be
> executed
> as
>     group "daemon", but the system's mail server executed the mail script
> as
>     group "nobody".  Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as
> group
>     "daemon", or re-run configure,  providing the command line option
>     `--with-mail-gid=nobody'.
>
>
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-- 
James Snyder

Center for Connected Learning
Systems Administrator

Materials Science & Engineering
Undergraduate, Class of 2005
Northwestern University

jbsnyder at northwestern.edu