Mailman GID problem

[Jean Milanez Melo]

Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> On Apr 20, 2007, at 10:42 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'.
> 
> I've given a complementary response on the mailman-users list (to which
> I'm also cc'ing this)
> 
> Nothing I say below takes away from what I said in that previous post. 
> The answers to the questions I've asked would have resolved this problem
> long ago.
> 
> There appears to be a bug in the pkg-install file that comes with the
> current mailman port.  When one installs (through FreeBSD ports) mailman
> selecting postfix as the MTA, the MAIL_GID correctly gets set to "nobody"
> 
> But in the pkg-install script all of the mailman files get set with
> 
>     echo "---> Creating Mailman directory (/usr/local/mailman)"
>     (umask 002 && /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/mailman") || exit 1
>     /usr/sbin/chown -R "mailman:mailman" "/usr/local/mailman" || exit 1
>     /bin/chmod g+s "/usr/local/mailman" || exit 1
> 
> Which is correct for everything except for /usr/local/mailman/data which
> should actually be set with
> 
>    chown -R nobody:mailman /usr/local/mailman/data
> 
> I don't know enough about ports to actually find the source pkg-install
> fine (the one I looked at and quoted from is after make has edited it
> with sed).  So I'm not certain whether the problem is in the Makefile or
> in the source for the pkg-install.
> 
> I experienced the same problem David had just a few weeks ago, but I
> attributed the problem (which I fixed by manually doing the chown) to me
> having moved my mailman set up from one machine to another.  So I
> thought that I had the wrong permissions for /usr/local/mailman/data as
> a consequence of the move and not because the mailman FreeBSD port was
> broken.
> 
> When I saw some of David's problems I started to have some suspicions,
> but I wasn't able to get enough information from him to really look at
> the ownerships the port set up.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -j
> 
> --Jeffrey Goldberg                        http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/
> 
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Hello,

I'm the mailman port maintainer, i'll take a look on this problem ASAP.

If i find a bug like your description , i'll commit a fix to it.

Thanks

-- 
Jean