----- Original Message ----- From: "John Dennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 13:00 -0700, Bill Landry wrote: > > O.K. the other things I suggested you check all seem fine. > >> > Is mailman in /etc/shadow on the machine >> > postfix is running on? >> >> grep mailman /etc/shadow >> mailman:!!:12327:::::: > > Actually /etc/passwd maybe more relevant in this instance. If postfix > does not have permission to read /etc/passwd it's look up is going to > fail (a non-readable /etc/group may also provoke this). Recall that > postfix typically does not run as root for very good reasons. What > postfix runs as is configurable. You want to make sure whatever user > postfix is running as has permission to read these /etc files. Also > typically /etc/passwd and /etc/group are readable by everybody. The only > other thing I can think of for you to check is to assure /etc/passwd > and /etc/group are readable by the postfix process. > > Short of that the only other things I can think of would be to strace > (assuming you're on a system with strace, e.g. Linux) the postfix > process and seeing where the failure occurs and/or to look at the > postfix code that performs the lookup and see exactly what c lib > functions it's calling and what triggers it to return a failure. This appears to be the standard across all of my RedHat 9/Postfix and Fedora Core3/Postfix servers: ls -l /etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2172 Jun 6 09:16 /etc/passwd ls -l /etc/group -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 974 Jun 6 13:34 /etc/group My other Postfix servers are function properly, and they all run as "mail_owner = postfix", including this particular Mailman server, so I am still a bit baffled by this one. Bill ------------------------------------------------------ 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
