Dave Filchak wrote: >Mark Sapiro wrote: >> >> Did you actually do the test described in the post at >> <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-May/044976.html> >> (linked from the FAQ) as the Mailman user? >> >Yes. This test was fine. >> Did you actually try to send mail as described in the post at >> <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-May/044746.html> >> (linked from the FAQ) as the Mailman user? >> >This worked as well although, as I mention below, I am not logged in a >mailman as mailman has no login shell and no password. Do I need to >create one for mailman and try it again? >> If you did those as the Mailman user and they didn't show any error, >> then I can't explain why it fails when OutgoingRunner does the exact >> same thing. >> >> >Did not do them as the mailman user but as another user (not root). User >mailman has no login shell (/sbin/nologin) Should mailman need a login >shell and passwd? It never has before and mailman was working. Again, >there was a UPS failure at my ISP and the servers lost power abruptly so >something might have happened then. But everything else is working, >including regular mail.
No. Mailman doesn't need a login shell or a password. You should be able to do, e.g. sudo -u mailman /bin/bash in order to get a command shell running as mailman or sudo -u mailman python to get a python interpreter. It seems there is a permissions issue somewhere that is preventing mailman from accessing something. Make sure /etc/hosts and /etc/resolve.conf are world readable. If that isn't it, try to narrow it down by running the tests as mailman using sudo as above. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> 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://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
