On 10/25/2020 11:48 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 10/25/20 7:37 AM, Dennis Putnam wrote: > >> This is still a bit confusing. I need to state that 'fetchmail' is >> involved here. I don't know how it interfaces but I have the >> 'postmaster' parameter in 'fetchmailrc' set to 'mailman'. This was not >> an issue with the previous version of mailman so I did not change it. >> That I had to use 'nobody' when installing the new version was different >> than the old version. I really don't know what else that would effect. > > Whatever the cause, the /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman wrapper is being > invoked by group mailman so you need to start over with `configure` and > `make install` with the --with-mail-gid=mailman option to configure and > not with --with-mail-gid=nobody. > > >> Yes, I ran 'check_perms' and it set it back. > > Good. Leave it that way. > > > >> This is where I'm a bit confused. That aliases file is owned by >> mailman:mailman. > Actually, it's the aliases.db file that counts and only the owner, > unless the invoking user:group comes from fetchmail. > >> I don't know what configure file you are talking about. > I'm talking about the configure command you use to configure Mailman. > > >> If you are referring to rebuilding mailman and the >> 'configure' command, that was where this started. I don't know if you >> recall the emails from back when I was installing 2.1.34. If I set that >> to 'mailman' rather than 'nobody', mailman will not start. > > Are you referring to the thread at > <https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/thread/NR7ACRKU552EJYGXNLUVUVB47HF2N3QD/>? > If so, I don't have time at the moment to look in detail, but the issue > seemed to be permissions and only changing the --with-mail-gid option > from mailman to nobody would not have affected this at all. > Hi Mark,
Yes that is what I was referring to. I have this sorted out now but I don't understand it completely. There are actually 2 servers involved here. The one you helped with originally (and on which that article was based) was RHEL 7 and that is where I used 'nobody' to get it working. This one is CentOS 7 which I thought was the same but obviously it is slightly different. So I did indeed change it to 'mailman' and now it works. Thanks again.
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