On Friday 20 April 2007 09:17:29 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > On Apr 20, 2007, at 10:41 AM, David Southwell wrote: > > ___________________________________ > > Extract from /var/maillog > > Apr 20 08:24:58 dns1 Mailman mail-wrapper: Group mismatch error. > > Mailman > > expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "nobody", > > but the > > system's mail server executed the mail script as group "mailman". Try > > tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "nobody", or re- > > run > > configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail- > > gid=mailman'. > > This is the third and final time I'll ask you give a long directory > listing of your mailman/data directory. (Twice here and once on the > FreeBSD list). I'm sorry -- I did in fact try to send it but mailman trashed my mail system and I lost the thread.
Here it is -rw-r----- 1 root mailman 41 Apr 16 07:51 adm.pw -rw-rw---- 1 root mailman 4364 Apr 20 06:39 aliases -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 16384 Apr 20 06:39 aliases.db -rw-r----- 1 root mailman 41 Apr 16 07:52 creator.pw -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 10 Apr 20 07:11 last_mailman_version -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 5 Apr 20 02:49 master-qrunner.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 14114 Apr 20 07:11 sitelist.cfg -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 0 Apr 17 09:52 virtual-aliases -rw-rw---- 1 www mailman 2275 Apr 20 06:39 virtual-mailman -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 16384 Apr 20 06:39 virtual-mailman.db > > > I recently set up mailman on a system extremely similar to yours > (FreeBSD 6.*, postfix). And I've been a long time user of mailman > (although with sendmail and exim). I really am in a good position to > help, but I might have to leave it to people with more patience. You have been great OK ask away for any further info you need. > > Please see my previous post > > http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/msg44296.html > > where I ask for this information and ask a series of yes or no > questions. > > > I have tried to rebuild mailman BUT the configuration option screen > > does not > > appear. I have tried > > # make with-mail-gid=mailman > > but still get the same results > > #./configure --with-mail-gid=mailman > > is not available > > If you wish to override this when doing the build from BSD ports then > you would use > > make -DMAIL_GID=mailman reinstall > > However, I STRONGLY advise against that. It is best to keep things > as close to the default settings as possible. > > I do think that these problems are better served by doing the > appropriate chown on the mailman/data directory instead of tinkering > with the build which would probably lead to harder to diagnose problems. > > -j ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] 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
