[ILUG] Mailman problems

[John Reilly]

By default in Redhat, sendmail uses smrsh which will not allow you to
execute scripts outside of /etc/smrsh.  You can solve by either putting
wrapper in there, or re-configure sendmail to use a different shell -
probably best to stick with smrsh though.

Cheers,
jr

> CC'ing to ILUG..
>
> > From: Ray Kelly [mailto:ray at skynet.ie]
> > Did the mailing list aliases actually get created?
> >
> > what does "sendmail -bv mail_list" on the machine itself say
> >
> > when adding a new list you should have been presented with
> > som "stuff" to paste into
> > your mail aliases, this is pretty obvious when you're using
> > the text mode to do so,
> > but seeing as I've not used the Wah Wah Wah interface to do
> > that in the past I can't comment on how it works
> I am using the text mode to do it - and have added the aliases - my
> mailing list is called test and /etc/aliases has
>
> ## test mailing list
> ## created: 15-Jul-2002 mailman
> test:                    "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post test"
> test-admin:              "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner test"
> test-request:            "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test"
> test-owner:              test-admin
>
> However - a mail to any of these addresses produces a bounce (user not
> found)
>
> > on the command not found stuff, It's possible that mailman is
> > living in a chrooted jail & therefore isn't able to get out
> > of that to find the apps / libs which it needs to run!
> > (especially if it's not running as root)
> > How did you install it, from src or a package?
> >
> I installed it from source and I made sure to set the --with-mail-gid to
> the group that sendmail runs as (daemon) and to set the --with-cgi-gid
> to the apache group (nobody) - it runs as mailman:mailman - I have
> symlinked safe_finger to the mailman chroot jail (/home/mailman/bin) -
> but this still doesn't work - however root doesn't get a command not
> found message in this case - he gets the output of safe_finger mailed to
> him instead (see first post).
>
> Cheers
>
> Fergal.
>
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