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Maybe I expressed myself wrong. I just would ike to
harmonize all the
lists to same gid.
Right. The same one as Mailman.
Agreed
I just wonder WHERE is the gid per list
stored or how
to make sure it's same as "the default".
There is no per-list group id. None. The group id has
to be the same as Mailman, otherwise things break.
Then HOW is it possible that some lists work, when
etc/mailman/mailman.mail-gid is nogroup (65533 in my box) and others
when it's mailman (67)?

I can reproduce the symptom and cure for each list. Now, HOW does the
mailman change the gid it uses per list?

hannu

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  • Brad Knowles at Oct 25, 2005 at 9:51 am ⇧

    At 12:34 PM +0300 2005-10-25, Niemi Hannu wrote:

    There is no per-list group id. None. The group id has
    to be the same as Mailman, otherwise things break.
    Then HOW is it possible that some lists work, when
    etc/mailman/mailman.mail-gid is nogroup (65533 in my box) and others
    when it's mailman (67)?
    Dunno. Maybe the permissions on some list directories are more
    open than they should be, so that even if the group id is wrong, the
    operations are still allowed to happen.
    I can reproduce the symptom and cure for each list. Now, HOW does the
    mailman change the gid it uses per list?
    As I said, it doesn't. Period. End of discussion.

    You've got something much more fundamentally broken on your
    machine. You might want to try re-installing from scratch, then
    copying over only the list configuration pickles.

    --
    Brad Knowles, <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org>

    "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
    temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

    -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania
    Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755

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  • Mark Sapiro at Oct 25, 2005 at 11:52 pm ⇧

    Niemi Hannu wrote:
    Then HOW is it possible that some lists work, when
    etc/mailman/mailman.mail-gid is nogroup (65533 in my box) and others
    when it's mailman (67)?

    I can reproduce the symptom and cure for each list. Now, HOW does the
    mailman change the gid it uses per list?

    Either you actually have two different wrappers (the program that the
    MTA pipes the incoming messages to), one invoked for one subset of
    lists and another for the other lists. Check your MTA aliases or
    whatever your MTA uses to know where to deliver the mail.

    Or this is some SuSE specific modification that most of us know nothing
    about.

    --
    Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net> The highway is for gamblers,
    San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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