John, Thanks for the reply. I actually didn't build from source -- I installed via yum, and it looks like there's a mailman group and user already. Should I just try to manually install?
thanks, jim On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 11:26:36 -0500, John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 18:40 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I'm getting the following error after I configured mailman as per > > instructions. Can someone please shed light on this? I can give you > > system details -- please just ask. > > > > Many thanks, > > jim > > > > > > Mailman CGI error!!! > > The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being > > stored in your syslog: > > > > Failure to lookup via getgrgid() the group info for group id -1 that > > this Mailman CGI wrapper is executing under. > > This is probably due to an incorrectly configured system and is not a > > Mailman problem > > I suspect you omitted either Step 1 or Step 2 of the INSTALL > instructions: > > Step 1: > - Add a new user called `mailman'. ... > - Add a new group called `mailman'. ... > > Step 2: > > TAKE SPECIAL NOTE OF THE --with-mail-gid AND --with-cgi-gid > OPTIONS BELOW. ... > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Mailman-Users mailing list > > Mailman-Users@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > -- > John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
