RE: [gentoo-user] mailman stopped working after upgrade

[Daevid Vincent]

Well, since I've gotten no replies here, I figured I'd file a report:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105744 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:daevid@××××××.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 1:53 PM
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] mailman stopped working after upgrade
>
> Someone on the 'mailman' list pointed me at, but that didn't
> seem to be very
> helpful:
> http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq06.016.htp
>
> I don't know why this would have broken/changed. I've been
> running mailman,
> so this was really just an upgrade. Same user/groups, lists,
> dirs, etc.
>
> The only 'USE' flag I have availabe to me is +apache2
> [ebuild   R   ] net-mail/mailman-2.1.5-r4  +apache2 5,611 kB
>
> Furthermore, it appears that the .ebuild has those --with
> flags mentioned in
> the FAQ.
>
> # more /usr/portage/net-mail/mailman/mailman-2.1.5-r4.ebuild
> ...
> src_compile() {
>         econf \
>                 --prefix=${INSTALLDIR} \
>                 --with-mail-gid=${MAILGID} \
>                 --with-cgi-gid=${APACHEGID} \
>         || die "configure failed"
>
>         make || die "make failed"
> }
> ...
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:daevid@××××××.com]
> > Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 12:35 PM
> > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> > Subject: [gentoo-user] mailman stopped working after upgrade
> >
> > Mailman was working, then a (Gentoo) 'emerge -Davu system'
> > update happened
> > the other day and looks like it broke mailman.
> >
> > daevid portage-logs # ll *mailman*
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 62662 Sep  7 11:34 3485-mailman-2.1.5-r4.log
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  1105 Sep  7 11:34 3486-mailman-2.1.5-r4.log
> >
> > Sep 12 12:16:19 [Mailman mail-wrapper] Group mismatch
> error.  Mailman
> > expected the mail_wrapper script to be executed as group
> > "mailman", but_the
> > system's mail server executed the mail script as_group
> > "mail".  Try tweaking
> > the mail server to run the_script as group "mailman", or
> > re-run configure,
> > _providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=mail'._
> > Sep 12 12:16:19 [exim] 2005-09-12 12:16:19 1EEtms-00021M-60 **
> > |/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post rbc <rbc@××××××.com>
> > R=system_aliases
> > T=address_pipe: Child process of address_pipe transport
> > returned 2 from
> > command: /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman
> >
> > daevid bin # locate mail_wrapper
> > daevid bin # locate as_group
> >
> > daevid portage-logs # ll /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman
> > -rwxr-sr-x  1 mailman mailman 7768 Sep  7 11:34
> > /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman
> >
> > daevid bin # ll
> > total 372
> > drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman mailman  4096 Sep  7 11:34 .
> > drwxrwsr-x  20 mailman mailman  4096 Apr  4 13:52 ..
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  7612 Sep  7 11:34 add_members
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  5406 Sep  7 11:34 arch
> > -rw-r--r--   1 mailman mailman  3748 Sep  7 11:34 auto
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  2559 Sep  7 11:34 b4b5-archfix
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  6130 Sep  7 11:34 change_pw
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  4264 Sep  7 11:34 check_db
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman 12223 Sep  7 11:34 check_perms
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  6632 Sep  7 11:34
> > check_perms_grsecurity.py
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  5492 Sep  7 11:34 cleanarch
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  6409 Sep  7 11:34 clone_member
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman 12326 Sep  7 11:34 config_list
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  1499 Sep  7 11:34 convert.py
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  3238 Sep  7 11:34 discard
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  4399 Sep  7 11:34 dumpdb
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  4951 Sep  7 11:34 find_member
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  2633 Sep  7 11:34 fix_url.py
> > -rw-r--r--   1 mailman mailman  2497 Apr  4 13:52 fix_url.pyc
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  3097 Sep  7 11:34 genaliases
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  2815 Sep  7 11:34 inject
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  2561 Sep  7 11:34 list_admins
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  3329 Sep  7 11:34 list_lists
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  8316 Sep  7 11:34 list_members
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  3165 Sep  7 11:34 list_owners
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman 21124 Sep  7 11:34 mailmanctl
> > -rw-r--r--   1 mailman mailman 18995 Sep  7 11:34
> majordomo2mailman.pl
> > -rw-r--r--   1 mailman mailman  5951 Sep  7 11:34 mm-handler
> > -rw-r--r--   1 mailman mailman  7048 Sep  7 11:34 mm-handler.readme
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  2989 Sep  7 11:34 mmsitepass
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  5530 Sep  7 11:34 msgfmt.py
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  7127 Sep  7 11:34 newlist
> > -rw-r--r--   1 mailman mailman  2412 Sep  7 11:34 paths.py
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root    mailman   652 Sep  7 11:34 paths.pyc
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  4076 Sep  7 11:34
> qmail-to-mailman.py
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  9196 Sep  7 11:34 qrunner
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  2957 Sep  7 11:34 rb-archfix
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  4699 Sep  7 11:34 remove_members
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  4256 Sep  7 11:34 rmlist
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  3463 Sep  7 11:34 rotatelogs.py
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  1346 Sep  7 11:34 show_qfiles
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  9664 Sep  7 11:34 sync_members
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman 11999 Sep  7 11:34 transcheck
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  2286 Sep  7 11:34 unshunt
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman 29648 Sep  7 11:34 update
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman   963 Sep  7 11:34 version
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mailman mailman  8382 Sep  7 11:34 withlist
> >
> > daevid portage-logs # more 3486-mailman-2.1.5-r4.log
> > No updates are necessary.
> >  * Running `/usr/local/mailman/bin/check_perms -f` *
> > /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/admindb must be set-gid (fixing)
> > /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/admin must be set-gid (fixing)
> > /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/confirm must be set-gid (fixing)
> > /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/create must be set-gid (fixing)
> > /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/edithtml must be set-gid (fixing)
> > /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo must be set-gid (fixing)
> > /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/options must be set-gid (fixing)
> > /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/private must be set-gid (fixing)
> > /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/rmlist must be set-gid (fixing)
> > /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/roster must be set-gid (fixing)
> > /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/subscribe must be set-gid (fixing)
> > /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman must be set-gid (fixing)
> > Problems found: 12
> > Re-run as mailman (or root) with -f flag to fix
> >  *
> >  * Please read /usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.5-r4/README.gentoo.gz for
> > additional
> >  * Setup information, mailman will NOT run unless you follow
> >  * those instructions!
> >  *
> >
> > daevid portage-logs # /usr/local/mailman/bin/check_perms -f
> > No problems found
> >
> > I read the README, but I've already been using mailman, it
> > doesn't mention
> > anything about upgrading.
> >
> > daevid bin # ./check_db
> > Nothing to do.
> >
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