On 5/21/19 5:20 PM, Fabian Aldo Santiago wrote: > Hello all, > > I have my postfix mail server running mm 2.1.26 installed via apt on Ubuntu > 18.04. I wish to upgrade to 2.1.29 but it’s not in the official repos. > > I tried installing from source, after first running mailman-config to gather > the configure parameters (thanks Lindsay!). It installed no sweat BUT failed > to start afterwards. It kept complaining of a pid file being unreadable.
Did you look at <https://wiki.list.org/x/17891606>? What was the exact complaint. It's probably easy to fix. > So I started over (restored snapshot) and then tried adding a ppa apt source > which contains 2.1.29: > > https://launchpad.net/~mailman-administrivia/+archive/ubuntu/ppa > > Installed with an IO error over a lock file purported to be from one of my > lists but otherwise started ok. But sending an email produced an error > complaining: > > The mail system > > <list@localhost>: Command died with status 2: "/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman > post list". Command output: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the > mail wrapper script to be executed as group "daemon", but the system's mail > server executed the mail script as group "list". Try tweaking the mail > server to run the script as group "daemon", or re-run configure, providing > the command line option `--with-mail-gid=list'. This is a group mismatch in the /var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman wrapper. See <https://wiki.list.org/x/4030645> for more on group mismatch. This may be an issue with the ppa which is maintained by @jimpop who reads this list and may chime in. However, Postfix is running the wrapper as group 'list' because 'list' is the owner of Mailman's data/aliases.db file. You can change this by `chown daemon data/aliases.db` but you need to ensure that that file is still group 'list' and group writable for Mailman to be able to update it as lists are added/deleted. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
