find out what user and group your mail server MTA is running with. If its nobody then you should give command: ./configure --prefix=/Users/mailman --with-mail-gid=nobody --with-cgi-gid=www
If its postfix use this: ./configure --prefix=/Users/mailman --with-mail-gid=postfix --with-cgi-gid=www that's it ! --yogesh > When sending to any of the lists on my server, I get the following > error message via email: > > The Postfix program > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Command died with status 8: > "/Users/mailman/mail/mailman post testlist". Command output: > Failure to > find group name nobody. Try adding this group to your system, or > re-run > configure, providing an existing group name with the command line > option > --with-mail-gid. > > When I initially configured Mailman I ran: > > ./configure --prefix=/Users/mailman --with-mail-gid=-2 > --with-cgi-gid=www > > I tried creating a group called nobody and that did not help things. > Do I need to start the whole process over with a "valid" group? > Found nothing about this in the archives or the FAQ that seemed related. > > Thanks. > > ------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > Searchable Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > --yogesh ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ One RAID to backup them all, one RAID to find them, one RAID to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------------------------------------------------------ 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 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/