Mollatt Ntini wrote: > >I hope I find you all well. I hope someone can point me in the right >direction. I am getting this group mismatch error on my list server: > >===== >[email protected] R=mailman_router T=mailman_transport: Child process >of mailman_transport transport returned 2 from command: >/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman >===== > >My server specs are as follows: > >===== >FreeBSD 8.2 >Exim 4.76 >Python 2.7.2 >Mailman 2.1.14 >===== > >On checking again, I get: >===== >/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post >Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail >wrapper script to be executed as group "mail", but >the system's mail server executed the mail script as >group "wheel". Try tweaking the mail server to run the >script as group "mail", or re-run configure, >providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=wheel'. >===== > >... and this was after I had recompiled mailman with wheel as the "gid" >which it was expecting. Before then it was giving me: > >===== >Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail >wrapper script to be executed as group "mailman other mail daemon", but >the system's mail server executed the mail script as >group "wheel". Try tweaking the mail server to run the >script as group "mailman other mail daemon", or re-run configure, >providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=wheel'. >===== > >I am not sure what I am missing.
First of all, from the first message you quote, it looks like you reconfigured with --with-mail-gid=mail rather than with --with-mail-gid=wheel. Rather than making further changes to Mailman, you can set the group for the mailman_transport in Exim. See <http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman21.html>. -- Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
