Installing mailman of Fedora Core 5
Ignacio Verona
nacho at estudio-verona.com
Wed Apr 26 12:50:17 UTC 2006
thanks for the reply Paul,
no, I didn't install using --noscripts. Just 'yum install mailman' and
the user was not created... really strange, isn't it?
Paul Howarth escribió:
> 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.
>
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