Mailman not running as 'mailman' but as 'nobody'

MattSharp · Apprentice Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Posts: 258

I followed the instructions on both the website and in the readme file as best I could and I am pretty sure I did everthing right. Mailman will send the welcome e-mail but upon trying to send a message I get it bounced back and an error about the script running as nobody instead of mailman.

One person suggested a roundabout way of re-installing Mailman, but this doesn't really make sense, because shouldn't there be a Gentoo way to do it? The way this person described was to compile it manually and do it myself as opposed to emerging it and whatnot.

Did I miss a step or is there some way to correct this now? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Giorgio · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 5:53 pm Post subject:

Look at /var/mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py .. you should have a line like this one:
MAILMAN_USER = 'mailman'
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app-portage/genlop
A nice emerge.log parser

MattSharp · Apprentice Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Posts: 258

MattSharp · Apprentice Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Posts: 258

The best I can tell is that this should have worked when I emerged it. So I don't know why I am getting this error. Is there anything I can do to correct it? It seems to me that this should work right away with no problem.