On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 01:02 -0800, Jessica Rasku wrote: > I installed mailman about a week ago and didn't realise that it was not > working correctly until today. It appears that mailman is expecting to > be executed (by sendmail) as group "mailman" GID 280 and sendmail is > executing it as group "daemon" GID 2. I can see that the solution is > probably to do a manual build of mailman changing the expected GID to 2 > which is what it is getting (seems the most logical to me), I just am > not sure how to go about this. I haven't done any manual installs > within the portage system yet. Any help would be appreciated. > > Jessica
When I had this problem the following answer helped me: Michael, I've had the same problem before. In order for Mailman to work properly, it has to know the gid of the mail program at compile time. In this case it was told the mail program's gid was that of group "mailman", but when the script was executed it was with the gid of group "deamon". The easiest way I've found (and possibly the only?) to fix it is to use vigr to get the gid of the daemon group, then edit the mailman ebuild file. Right near the top of the file is an option for setting the mail-gid. Change that number to the one you found from vigr, then re-emerge mailman. Keep in mind that you'll have to repeat this procedure every time you upgrade mailman because the new ebuild won't have your changes in it. Bryan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
