Fwd: the mailman is running as "NoBody" help

Gabriel Vega
The BlindTechs Network
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> From: Gabriel Vega <[email protected]>
> Date: August 16, 2006 6:27:45 AM MST
> To: "Daniel J. Luke" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: the mailman is running as "NoBody" help
>
> so I take it, it is not as easy as just changing group owner ship  
> of the /opt/local/share/mailman directory and sub directories???
>
> I guess if I had too, I could install mailman manually but I was  
> happy getting this far. and i am so close. I am running tiger,  
> postfix and mailman 2.1.x what ever dp downloads and installs. I  
> believe its 2.1.5. should I just uninstall it and reinstall it  
> manually or can I fix this fairly easy like either in postfix or in  
> mailman permisions some how?
>
> Gabriel Vega
> The BlindTechs Network
> email: [email protected]
> website: http://blindtechs.net
>  Phoenix (602) 476-2307 ext: 2863
> Los Angeles (562) 261-5277 ext: 2863
> Toll Free (866) 714-4244 ext: 2863
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 16, 2006, at 6:14 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>
>> On Aug 15, 2006, at 10:49 PM, Gabriel Vega wrote:
>>> I did a sudo port install mailman and it seemed to install fine.  
>>> when i do check_perms -f it says no problems.
>>>
>>> I have set up to lists and they seem to set up fine, the page  
>>> administration and the public pages are viewable. I set up the  
>>> aliases and things seem to be going good, but, when sending a  
>>> message I got the error that the system was expecting the user/ 
>>> group "MailMan" to activate the script and "NoBody" seems to be  
>>> in charge.
>>
>> The port sets up mailman, specifying --with-mail-gid=mailman
>>
>> (see http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/node7.html)
>>
>> Depending on your MTA configuration, this may or may not actually  
>> be what you want (for instance, a relatively default sendmail  
>> install on Mac OS X wants --with-mail-gid=daemon)
>>
>> You might be able to reconfigure your MTA to make things work.
>>
>> --
>> Daniel J. Luke
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