[wplug] mailman/python error under redhat 9

[Tim Lesher]

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 10:00:48AM -0400, John Harrold wrote:
> i have a friend who was trying to use mailman under redhat 9. he was
> getting the following error:
[...]
> 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]
[...]
> it seems like python cannot find the function 'getgrnam'.

No, python is finding getgrnam() just fine.  The problem is that
getgrname() is not finding its argument, which is the MAILMAN_GROUP
member of the mm_cfg dictionary (a KeyError means that a dictionary
lookup by key failed).

Sounds like your friend didn't edit the mm_cfg.py file to set the
MAILMAN_GROUP and MAILMAN_USER variables.

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