[Mailman-Users] need help with configuration

[Bob]

Thanks for responding Kit.

Kit Stube wrote:

>
> The answer is here:
>
>>> Try tweaking the mail server to run the
>>> script as group "daemon", or re-run configure, providing the command 
>>> line option `--with-mail-gid=Debian-exim'.
>>>
>> Please note that I am a relatively new user to linux. I am not a 
>> programmer or trained systems expert, so simple explanations would be 
>> appreciated.
>>
> Well, your problem is that your mail server is running as a certian 
> user (Debian-exim), which means that it has that users permissions.  
> Your mail server is trying to start another script (the mailman script 
> in question) which needs to be run as a different user (daemon).  You 
> can either:
> 1. modify what user your mail server runs as
> 2. modify what user mailman runs as
> 3. try to get your mail server to run the script as the mailman user
>
> I'm not an exim admin so I can't help you with options 1 or 3.  I run 
> postfix on my server.
>
> If you want to use option 2, as suggested by the error message above 
> you will need to reinstall mailman.  When you install mailman, you run 
> configure with the  --with-mail-gid=Debian-exim.
> ie:
> ./configure --with-mail-gid=Debian-exim
>

the problem with this is that under debian, when you install, it 
installs without options. So, how do I change the mail-gid that mailman 
uses?

> It will then configure mailman to be run as the user your mailer wants 
> to use to run the script.
>


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