[NTLUG:Discuss] HELP! Upgrade went bad! My email server is DOWN!!!!!!

[Stephen Davidson]

Bobby Wrenn wrote:

> Bobby Wrenn wrote:
>
>> Stephen Davidson wrote:
>>
>> If you don't install Mailman often it is easy to miss some of this 
>> stuff. Most of the answers are out there but if you don't know the 
>> question to ask it can be very frustrating. I just finised a similar 
>> upgrade with Mailman and Postfix. I'm betting most of the things that 
>> I found will help you.
>>
>> 1. run /usr/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms
>> 2. edit /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py (note case) verify or 
>> change the DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST setting (may also be DEFAULT_HOST_NAME)
>> 3. verify /etc/mailman.cgi-gid matches the gid of your web server.
>> 4. verify the preferd host name for this list on the general options 
>> page near the bottom.
>>
>> Your file locations may vary. This is the default for SuSE 9.0
>>
>> HTH
>> Bobby
>>
>>
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> Well Steve said that wan't it and I can't help with Sendmail. Any 
> Sendmail gurus ou there?
>
Greetings.

You would think that I, of all people, would know that just because 
software has started, does NOT mean it is working correctly, or even 
working!

I have worked through the issues that were preventing mailman and 
sendmail from being installed and running at the same time (I will post 
to a webpage when I get everything working).  Now, when I try to send a 
message to the J2EE SIG list, I get;

The original message was received at Fri, 10 Dec 2004 06:23:56 -0600
from edge.buz.net.65.123.206.in-addr.arpa [206.123.65.84] (may be forged)

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post j2ee"
    (reason: 2)
    (expanded from: <j2ee at j2eeguys.com>)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 67, GOT gid 2.


554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 2

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There are similar messages in the log, but not what is causing them.  
FYI, Gid 2 == DAEMON on SuSE 9.2 systems.  Mailman is running as user 
"mailman", but not sure what group it is under.  Mailman group is 67, 
which is also contents of /etc/mailman.cgi-gid file.

Suggestions?

Regards,
Steve

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