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Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> When I had this problem the following answer helped me: |
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> Michael, |
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> I've had the same problem before. In order for Mailman to work |
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> properly, it has to know the gid of the mail program at compile time. |
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> In this case it was told the mail program's gid was that of group |
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> "mailman", but when the script was executed it was with the gid of |
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> group |
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> "deamon". The easiest way I've found (and possibly the only?) to fix |
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> it |
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> is to use vigr to get the gid of the daemon group, then edit the |
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> mailman |
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> ebuild file. Right near the top of the file is an option for setting |
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> the mail-gid. Change that number to the one you found from vigr, then |
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> re-emerge mailman. Keep in mind that you'll have to repeat this |
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> procedure every time you upgrade mailman because the new ebuild won't |
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> have your changes in it. |
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I have tried this twice. Once changing the ebuild in |
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/var/db/pkg/net-mail/ then I created a /root/portage-overlay/ and tried |
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to do it that way. I'm missing something. I'm just not sure what it |
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is. I feel pretty clueless right now. |
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Jessica |
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