[wplug] mailman/python error under redhat 9

[Jonathan S. Billings]

You need a mailman group in /etc/group that mailman is a member of.


On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 10:00  AM, John Harrold wrote:

> 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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