I had this problem. Check the gid for httpd and sendmail and run configure --with-gid parameter.
Phillip Morgan wrote: > Hi all, > > Can you please help me with this one... > > I've just finsihed installing mailman 2.0.11 on my slackware linux > system kernel 2.2.19, running sendmail 8.11.4, with Mailman installed > in /usr/local/mailman. > > I created a test list as per the INSTALL doc, and went to web > administration which appears to be working fine. Then when sending an > email I get this response... > > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > > "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/wrapper post test" > > (reason: 2) > > (expanded from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > >Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 2. (Reconfigure to > >take 2?) 554 5.3.0 "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/wrapper post > test"... .unknown mailer error 2 > > Failure to exec script. Wanted GID 12 got 2? > > Err, when I added the group mailman to my /etc/group file, I used GID > 25. This is the /etc/passwd and /etc/group entries... > > /etc/passwd > mailman:x:1068:100:List Manager:/dev/null: > > /etc/group > mailman::25: > > And here is the system log entry... > Jun 20 13:06:02 qpbd999 Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec script. > WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 2. (Reconfigure to take 2?) > > There are no errors in my web server logs. > > While I have you attention, I have a mailing list of many thousands of > subscribers (I'm converting from mjaordomo to mailman). Can I expect > any performance issues on a Pentium, 550 with 128mb RAM, running > sendmail 8.11.4, apache 1.3.20? > > Also, I run several domains on this server, one of the main reasons for > this installation is that it will be primarily used for one of those > hosted domains, not so much for Quickpages. Where can I find doc re > virtual domains for mailman? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > -- > Cheers, > Phill Morgan > > ------------------------------------------------------ > 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
