From d5744efcc70452a500730dabcc8a9202218f7506 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: msapiro <>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 03:30:14 +0000
Subject: Correct error message when callers group ID - getgid() - is not
registered
---
src/common.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
(limited to 'src')
diff --git a/src/common.c b/src/common.c
index d18a0c60..0b135758 100644
--- a/src/common.c
+++ b/src/common.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
/* common.c --- Common routines, constants, etc. Used by all the wrappers.
*
- * Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2000,2001,2002 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2005 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
@@ -137,10 +137,15 @@ check_caller(const char* ident, const char* parentgroup)
if (!mygroup)
fatal(ident, GROUP_NAME_NOT_FOUND,
- "Failure to find group name %s. Try adding this group\n"
- "to your system, or re-run configure, providing an\n"
- "existing group name with the command line option %s.",
- parentgroup, option);
+ "Failure to find group name for GID %d. Mailman\n"
+ "expected the %s wrapper to be executed as group\n"
+ "\"%s\", but the system's %s server executed the\n"
+ "wrapper as GID %d for which the name could not be\n"
+ "found. Try adding GID %d to your system as \"%s\",\n"
+ "or tweak your %s server to run the wrapper as group\n"
+ "\"%s\".",
+ mygid, wrapper, parentgroup, server, mygid, mygid,
+ parentgroup, server, parentgroup);
if (strcmp(parentgroup, mygroup->gr_name))
fatal(ident, GROUP_MISMATCH,
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