roy vinner wrote: > >I've also discovered that if I run an alias expansion from the command line > >aliases: >.............................................. ># STANZA START: try ># CREATED: Mon Jul 25 17:19:03 2005 >try: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post try" >try-admin: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman admin try" >try-bounces: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman bounces try" >try-confirm: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman confirm try" >try-join: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman join try" >try-leave: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman leave try" >try-owner: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman owner try" >try-request: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman request try" >try-subscribe: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe try" >try-unsubscribe: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe try" ># STANZA END: try >.......... > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailman-2.1.6]$ /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman request try >Failure to find group name mailman. Try adding this group >to your system, or re-run configure, providing an >existing group name with the command line option --with-mail-gid.
Running this from the command line is not necessarily a valid test. The wrapper (/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman) exects to be run by the MTA with the group that was configured by ./configure. This is almost always not the 'mailman' group. See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq06.016.htp -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ 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