I'm running a very similar setup with freeBSD 4.3/Postfix/mailman v2.08. In my opinion you'd be better off skipping the bsd port and just downloading the src for the latest stable mailman, ie: v.2.08. From there it should be a very clean and painless install.
-Richard Idalski -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tim Legg Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 4:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Mailman-Users] Setting up a new list Running FreeBSD 4.4/Postfix/Mailman 2.0.5 I installed mailman via FreeBSD ports hierarchy a few days ago. I am playing around trying to get a test mailing list celled 'test'. Afterreading Chris Kolar's docs and the list.org docs, I got brave enough to try running the ./bin/newuser script. I got the following: pc047113# python -i newlist Enter the name of the list: test Enter the email of the person running the list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Initial test password: Traceback (most recent call last): File "newlist", line 220, in ? main() File "newlist", line 169, in main mlist.Create(listname, owner_mail, pw) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 786, in Create self.__lock.lock() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 219, in lock self.__write() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 350, in __write fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w') IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/mailman/locks/<site>.l ock.pc047113.stuorg.iastate.edu.4164' >>> I have a feeling there is something fundamental that I am missing here, and it is probably something rather stupid. This has stumped me for three days now though. Perhaps Mailman isn't running or something was missed during the ports install. Never found any docs where it was installed. Found lots of web documents on the user/list manager end of the software, but does anybody know of any further HOWTOs, docs for me to reference (interested in more administrative/installation)? Would I be better off removing it from ports and then downloading/compiling/installing manually? ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
