This is definitely in the FAQ (see the bottom of the email message). You don't need to un-install, but you do need to re-install. Take a look at what is running as your MTA (sendmail, postfix, exim, qmail, etc...) and figure out what Group it runs as. If you are using Sendmail, you can: grep DefaultUser /etc/sendmail.cf
The response will be something like "O DefaultUser=8:12". The first number is the userID and the second number is the groupID that sendmail runs as. So you would configure mailman using "--with-mail-gid=12" Your error message indicates that your MTA is trying to run as groupID 1 GID = 1 is normally something like "bin", which IMHO is not a good thing... and definitely not something that Sendmail does. ----- Original Message ----- From: "RUSSELL P JONES" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "IOhannes m zmoelnig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 11:43 AM Subject: [Mailman-Users] Thanks and GID error... > First off, thanks for everyone who helped me out yesterday, the response > was incredible, you folks are awesome. > > Secondly, I ran into a GID error stating... > > Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 6, GOT gid 1. (Reconfigure to take 1?) > 554 5.3.0 "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post russ"... unknown mailer error > 2 > > Do I just uninstall mailman and reinstall it using the --with-cgi-gid and > --with-mail-gid options, and somehow set them to 1? > > Are there any other variables I am going to have to use? > > Is there an easy way to uninstall mailman? > > Are you becoming quickly annoyed at my inept questions? > > Thanks... > > Russ Jones > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------ 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