Installing mailman of Fedora Core 5

[Paul Howarth]

Ignacio Verona wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to install mailman on a FC5 system, but doing 'yum install 
> mailman' returns me a lot of lines like:
> [1/1]warning: group mailman does not exist - using root
> 
> And after that I'm not able to do anything. 
> '/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mmsitepass' returns:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mmsitepass", line 45, in ?
>    from Mailman import Utils
>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 51, in ?
>    from Mailman import mm_cfg
>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py", line 51, in ?
>    MAILMAN_GID = grp.getgrnam('mailman')[2]
> KeyError: 'getgrnam(): name not found: mailman'
> 
> Because neither the 'mailman' user or 'mailman' group does exist. Any 
> clue about what happens?

They should have been installed as part of the pre-install script for 
the mailman package. They should have UID/GID 41. You didn't install it 
using rpm --noscripts did you?

Try removing mailman and reinstalling it.

Paul.