[wplug] mailman/python error under redhat 9

[John Harrold]

hey.

i have a friend who was trying to use mailman under redhat 9. he was
getting the following error:

ceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 526, in ?
    main()
  File "/var/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 321, 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



now if i goto line 274 in mailmanctl, it looks like this:

    gid = grp.getgrnam(mm_cfg.MAILMAN_GROUP)[2]
    uid = pwd.getpwnam(mm_cfg.MAILMAN_USER)[2]

i can replace that with the following:

    gid = 41
    uid = 41

where 41 is both the group and user ids, and it works fine. so it seems like
python cannot find the function 'getgrnam'. can anyone tell me how to fix this
other than editing mailmanctl and changing the gid and uid manually?


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