Re: [Mailman-Users] Failure to find group name error
Hi Paul, On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 05:19, Paul Bromiley wrote: Hello, I tried that first time around, using yum. I got a similar error to the one I am getting now: when I tried to access the admin page for the site list, it gave an error saying that it could not find the group name for group 48, which is apache on my machine. Reading around on the web, I came to the conclusion that mailman was expecting to be run under a different group ID, and that by installing from the tarball I could set the group ID to be the aapche group ID at the configuration stage. However, this doesn't seem to have worked either. Did you do anything special (i.e. anything ouside installing the RPM then following the instructions in INSTALL.REDHAT) when you installed mailman? Cheers, Dr. Paul A. Bromiley I've been building list servers on Redhat/Fedora for several years and the rpms for Fedora Core 1 and 2 have been especially easy to install and configure. You *should* be able to install mailman using yum (I use apt) without any difficulty. The rpm installation creates the user mailman and runs mailman under the group mailman. I seem to remember having the same issue that your having a couple of years ago but can't recall how I resolved it (that was many servers ago). If you do not have too much time invested in configuring your server, you may want to simply reload it. I have done several FC2 installs with the stock mailman rpms without any problems. I am curious about this issue but have to leave the office for a while and won't be able to research this now. David -- 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/
Re: [Mailman-Users] Failure to find group name error
It is also always a good idea to run (in the case of Fedora): # /var/mailman/bin/check_perms David -- 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/
[Mailman-Users] Failure to find group name error
Hello, I am trying to set up Mailman on a Fedora Core 2 system running apache 2.0, using the Mailman 2.1.5 tarball downloaded from www.list.org. I have followed the installation instructions, and used configure --with-mail-gid=mail --with-cgi-gid=apache at the configuration stage. These group names are the correct ones for sendmail and apache on my system (i.e. the ones given in httpd.conf and sendmail.cf). The installation proceeds without any errors, and when I set up the site-wide mailing list I get a confirmation e-mail stating that I can configure the mailing list at http:///mailman/admin/mailman. However, when I point my web browser at that page I get: Mailman CGI error!!! The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being stored in your syslog: Failure to find group name apache. Try adding this group to your system, or re-run configure, providing an existing group name with the command line option --with-cgi-gid. The apache group exists on my system (i.e. it is listed in /etc/group) and works properly: I can chown files to this group. I have also tried running configure with the group ID numbers instead of the names, but get the same error. I know that this question has been posted before, but none of the posts in the archives describe what you have to do to fix it. Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated. Paul. -- 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/
Re: [Mailman-Users] Failure to find group name error
On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 14:52, Paul Bromiley wrote: Hello, I am trying to set up Mailman on a Fedora Core 2 system running apache 2.0, using the Mailman 2.1.5 tarball downloaded from www.list.org. I have followed the installation instructions, and used Why don't you just use the 2.1.5 rpm for Fedora Core 2? I installed this rpm with no problem. David -- 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/
