Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:40:11 -0400 From: Wesley Shields <wxs@atarininja.org> To: David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, List_Mailman Org <mailman-users@python.org>, Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mailman GID problem Message-ID: <20070420184011.GD13946@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <200704201132.14391.david@vizion2000.net> References: <200704200842.48793.david@vizion2000.net> <CA436D2A-08D1-4CC9-B300-7FF4E7F929F0@goldmark.org> <200704201132.14391.david@vizion2000.net>
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On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 11:32:13AM -0700, David Southwell wrote: > On Friday 20 April 2007 09:38:03 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > > On Apr 20, 2007, at 10:42 AM, David Southwell wrote: > > > Extract from /var/maillog > > > Apr 20 08:24:58 dns1 Mailman mail-wrapper: Group mismatch error. > > > Mailman > > > expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "nobody", > > > but the > > > system's mail server executed the mail script as group "mailman". Try > > > tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "nobody", or re- > > > run > > > configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail- > > > gid=mailman'. > > > > I've given a complementary response on the mailman-users list (to > > which I'm also cc'ing this) > > > > Nothing I say below takes away from what I said in that previous > > post. The answers to the questions I've asked would have resolved > > this problem long ago. > > > > There appears to be a bug in the pkg-install file that comes with the > > current mailman port. When one installs (through FreeBSD ports) > > mailman selecting postfix as the MTA, the MAIL_GID correctly gets set > > to "nobody" > > > > But in the pkg-install script all of the mailman files get set with > > > > echo "---> Creating Mailman directory (/usr/local/mailman)" > > (umask 002 && /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/mailman") || exit 1 > > /usr/sbin/chown -R "mailman:mailman" "/usr/local/mailman" || exit 1 > > /bin/chmod g+s "/usr/local/mailman" || exit 1 > > > > Which is correct for everything except for /usr/local/mailman/data > > which should actually be set with > > > > chown -R nobody:mailman /usr/local/mailman/data > > > > I don't know enough about ports to actually find the source pkg- > > install fine (the one I looked at and quoted from is after make has > > edited it with sed). So I'm not certain whether the problem is in > > the Makefile or in the source for the pkg-install. > > > > I experienced the same problem David had just a few weeks ago, but I > > attributed the problem (which I fixed by manually doing the chown) to > > me having moved my mailman set up from one machine to another. So I > > thought that I had the wrong permissions for /usr/local/mailman/data > > as a consequence of the move and not because the mailman FreeBSD port > > was broken. > > > > When I saw some of David's problems I started to have some > > suspicions, but I wasn't able to get enough information from him to > > really look at the ownerships the port set up. > > The problem is I was not able to actually rebuild the ports doing a config. It > seems once mailman has been installed once you cannot get the config > screne up and another make install leaves things exactly as they were for the > previous installation. The original installation preferences are preserved - > so I cannot tell you how the port created the ownership orininally. All I can > tell you is that I followed the instructions in docs. > Sorry to appear to be unhelpful -- but if there is anything I can do please > let me know. Actually, you can. You can use 'make rmconfig' to remove the options you set, or you can use 'make config' to get the dialog again. -- WXS
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