Re: [Mailman-Users] Group id Catch-22 after list move

2003-04-06 Thread Todd Green
Thanks, but that's all done. The problem is that the old lists want one userid and group, any new lists want a different one. I can't figure out why Postfix gets the error in the one case, but not the other. That isn't a postfix problem, that's mailman complaining. Just use your new id's and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Group id Catch-22 after list move

2003-04-06 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 19:36, Todd Green wrote: I do not believe this is the case. Postfix will execute commands via the uid specified by postconf default_privs which is set to nobody if you don't change it. However the mailman script is setgid, so it will run with an effective group of

[Mailman-Users] Group id Catch-22 after list move

2003-04-05 Thread Nick Arnett
I recently moved a couple of lists to a new machine, also upgrading from a 2.1 beta to the final. I copied the entire Mailman directory structure from the old to the new machine, then installed 2.1. I also switched from Sendmail to Postfix. Now I seem to have a Catch-22 with regard to user ids.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Group id Catch-22 after list move

2003-04-05 Thread Todd Green
My old lists are running okay. However, any new list I create has a user id problem with Postfix -- I get the Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group... error when posting to a new list. If I re-install, using the group name it expects for the new lists, then the new

RE: [Mailman-Users] Group id Catch-22 after list move

2003-04-05 Thread Nick Arnett
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf ... Postfix should only need to access your mailman auto-generated aliases. So we have a userid and group dedicated for mailman (and the http server), then just add the userid for postfix to the mailman