On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 01:49 PM, Thomas Hillson wrote: > Did you look in the /etc/passd and /etc/group to see if the user and > group were actually placed there. OS-X does not put all the users and > groups in /etc files as it does not use them for all its functions. It > uses the Net-Info files which are different and not all users and > groups that I can created on my OS-X computer are in the passwd and > group files. > I just placed them there a moment ago, then re-ran the ./configure script and got:
checking for mailman UID... ./configure: permission denied: conftest.py [1152] /usr/local/bin/python: can't open file 'conftest.py' cat: conftest.out: No such file or directory configure: error: ***** No "mailman" user found! ***** Your system must have a "mailman" user defined ***** (usually in your /etc/passwd file). Please see the INSTALL ***** file for details. I know there is a mailman user...I added it using niutil and have confirmed it's there. I also added the user and groups to the passwd and group files. from passwd: mailman:*:5990:5990:Mailman List Server:/Users/mailman:/bin/tcsh from group: mailman:*:5990:mailman -Michael ------------------------------------------------------ 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
