Installing mailman of Fedora Core 5

[Ignacio Verona]

thanks for the reply Paul,

no, I didn't install using --noscripts. Just 'yum install mailman' and 
the user was not created... really strange, isn't it?

Paul Howarth escribió:
> Ignacio Verona wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to install mailman on a FC5 system, but doing 'yum install 
>> mailman' returns me a lot of lines like:
>> [1/1]warning: group mailman does not exist - using root
>>
>> And after that I'm not able to do anything. 
>> '/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mmsitepass' returns:
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mmsitepass", line 45, in ?
>>    from Mailman import Utils
>>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 51, in ?
>>    from Mailman import mm_cfg
>>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py", line 51, in ?
>>    MAILMAN_GID = grp.getgrnam('mailman')[2]
>> KeyError: 'getgrnam(): name not found: mailman'
>>
>> Because neither the 'mailman' user or 'mailman' group does exist. Any 
>> clue about what happens?
>
> They should have been installed as part of the pre-install script for 
> the mailman package. They should have UID/GID 41. You didn't install 
> it using rpm --noscripts did you?
>
> Try removing mailman and reinstalling it.
>
> Paul.
>