[TriLUG] Mailman conversion from FreeBSD to Centos 4

[Dan Simoes]

I'm running gentoo and have mailman installed as a package, after having run
it for years on a solaris box.
>From my aliases:
# aliases for mailman use
## testing mailing list
testing: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post testing"


So I would say the "wrapper" is the mailman program, which is a binary.
My permissions are:
gentoo mailman # ls -ld /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman
-rwxr-sr-x 1 mailman mailman 7252 Jul 31 13:11
/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman

Hope this helps. I would suggest getting mailman up with a test list, then
migrating your existing config files.

| Dan |

On 10/2/05, Jeff The Riffer <riffer at vaxer.net> wrote:
>
>
> Kinda rushed here, so sorry if this is short on details and long on typos.
>
> Migrated a production system over to Centos. Copied over Mailman
> configurations, lists and aliases from old FreeBSD box to new CentOS
> system. On the old box Mailman was installed as a source package, on
> CentOS its RPM
>
> When trying to send e-mail to a list you get a bounce complaining about
> group mis-match errors:
>
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post test"
> (reason: 2)
> (expanded from: <test at vaxer.net>)
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be
> executed as one of the following groups:
> [mail, postfix, mailman, nobody, daemon],
> but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group: "bin".
> Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as one of these groups:
> [mail, postfix, mailman, nobody, daemon],
> or re-run configure providing the command line option:
> '--with-mail-gid=bin'.
> 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 2
>
>
> I have no idea what wrapper script it's talking about. Smrsh is currently
> disabled due to conflicts with procmail... So I'm trying to figure out
> what I need to change and where. Any suggestions?
> (And no I do NOT want to rebuild from source)
>
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