Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:51:07 -0500 From: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> To: David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Jean Milanez Melo <jmelo@freebsdbrasil.com.br>, List_Mailman Org <mailman-users@python.org> Subject: Re: Mailman GID problem Message-ID: <1598419F-7ABB-42F0-8895-1807421E0BE6@goldmark.org> In-Reply-To: <200704201144.14617.david@vizion2000.net> References: <200704200842.48793.david@vizion2000.net> <CA436D2A-08D1-4CC9-B300-7FF4E7F929F0@goldmark.org> <200704201144.14617.david@vizion2000.net>
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On Apr 20, 2007, at 1:44 PM, David Southwell wrote: > On Friday 20 April 2007 09:38:03 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: >> chown -R nobody:mailman /usr/local/mailman/data > > Here is what happens if I do that command: > > [root@dns1 /usr/local/mailman]# bin/check_perms > /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases.db owned by nobody (must be owned > by mailman > /usr/local/mailman/data/virtual-mailman.db owned by nobody (must be > owned by > mailman > Problems found: 2 > Re-run as mailman (or root) with -f flag to fix > [root@dns1 /usr/local/mailman]# Hmmm. Now that I check, I get the same warning. However, my system does work with owners and permissions like this Still, I guess this isn't a proper solution to the problem since the next time we run bin/check_perms -f we will actually break things on our systems. Maybe the correct solution is use owner "mailman" and MAIL_GID as "mailman", which means a simple fix to the mailman ports Makefile. In which case, your attempt to recompile with mailman as the GID would have been the right approach. The way to reset the OPTIONS for a FreeBSD port is to run make config in the port directory. But the MAIL_GID is not among the options settable that way. I believe that if you use make -DMAIL_GID=mailman reinstall then that will pass the correct option to the configure script that comes with mailman. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/
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