Bug 89695
| Summary: | Mailman fails to start when using service mailman start | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Mike Chambers <mike> |
| Component: | mailman | Assignee: | John Dennis <jdennis> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | chris.ricker, kevie, menthos |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-04-28 14:31:19 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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In /var/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py file, this looks to be the part that is failing..
# Here's where we override shipped defaults with settings #
# suitable for the RPM package. #
MAILMAN_UID = pwd.getpwnam('mailman')[2]
MAILMAN_GID = grp.getgrnam('mailman')[2]
Someone posted that this is what they did to get that working..
I ran into this problem also. I believe I worked around it by setting
MAILMAN_USER = 'mailman'
MAILMAN_GROUP = 'mailman'
in my /var/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py file. (There were other values
I needed to customize in this file anyway.) The defaults in
/var/mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py should probably be changed from
MAILMAN_USER = ''
MAILMAN_GROUP = ''
to the values above.
Does this help any?
These problems have been fixed in the current rpm, mailman-2.1.1-3 *** Bug 90052 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2003-179.html |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401 Description of problem: Upon a fresh install of Shrike, and fresh install of httpd and mailman, when starting mailman via service mailman start, get traceback errors. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mailman-2.1-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install mailman 2.Install httpd 3.service mailman start Actual Results: [root@bart root]# service mailman start Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 524, in ? main() File "/var/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 319, in main check_privs() File "/var/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 274, in check_privs gid = grp.getgrnam(mm_cfg.MAILMAN_GROUP)[2] KeyError: getgrnam(): name not found Expected Results: Mailman should start with no errors Additional info: I used to run mailman until a few months ago (no lists to run at the moment). But someone else got this error, so thought I would try it out to see what the problem was. I don't recall ever having to *start* mailman, as it just worked after install.