mailman upgrade problem

Michael P. Soulier msoulier at digitaltorque.ca
Sat Dec 16 19:31:17 PST 2006


On 16/12/06 Michael P. Soulier said:

> I just did a portupgrade on mailman, and now it's doing this.
> 
> Dec 16 22:05:27 kanga 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'.
> Dec 16 22:05:27 kanga postfix/local[87645]: 830DE6E: to=<opag at opag.ca>,
> relay=local, delay=0, status=bounced (Command died with status 2:
> "/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post opag". Command output: 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'. )

This is odd though, considering the wrapper program is group ownership
mailman, with the sgid bit set. 

Plus, if I change the group ownership to nobody, it complains about the
opposite.

Mike
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Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at digitaltorque.ca>
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