[baylisa] Reinstall python?

Tue May 27 15:49:08 PDT 2003

At 2003/05/24/14:49 -0700 Roy S. Rapoport <rsr at inorganic.org> wrote:
> That's actually not a Mailman/Python issue, but a Mailman configuration
> issue.  It's not telling you that Python can't find the getgrnam
> function, but rather that getgrnam is not able to find the group database entry for the entry that mm_cfg.MAILMAN_GROUP is pointing to.  In other words, the 
> MAILMAN_GROUP variable in your mm_cfg.py or Defaults.py files has set does not
> correspond to a UNIX group name on your system.

> So I think you're probably not really SOL -- my guess is you just need
> to tweak mm_cfg.py (or, technically, Defaults.py, though you should use
> mm_cfg.py).

That was it!  I edited ~/mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py.  Changed the lines:

  MAILMAN_USER = ''
  MAILMAN_GROUP = ''

to:

  MAILMAN_USER = 'mailman'
  MAILMAN_GROUP = 'mailman'

And was able to restart mailman without the previous complaints!

Thanks Roy!

David
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