Ooh one other thing - 1. How can I test that Mailman is working with sendmail correctly?
Thanks all -----Original Message----- From: ghhalley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 5:45 PM To: Sullivan, John Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re[2]: [Mailman-Users] Help Newbie trying to get working.. John, Comments are in-line with your questions. BTW How Newbie are you with Linux? Its hard to tell from your EMails -- Sounds like you are brand new to RH8, but do you have experience with other releases? I will modify my explanations depending on your knowledge. For example, I've played around on RH 6.2 box for two years as a part time job. > Thanks for your info George.. > A few more questions. > 1. I installed the MailMan package during the Red Hat Server installation. > It look like it installed MAILMAN in /var/mailman/ Good -- That is what I did, too. > It seems to have done a few of the steps for me - create a mailman user and > Mailman group. Good -- and you should have a mail user and group for Sendmail and a Apache user and group for Apace. All three users are needed for Mailman to run properly. Three users are run to increase the system security. > It moved some of the jpgs into my apache install - I never had to do that. Evidentially, they were already there. (I hate having to move simple icons -- so I skipped it!) > The apache installed a little different then I am use to and being a newbie > it has confused the hell out of me. Have you configured Apache before? If not, there are a bunch of questions to resolve about how you do your webserver. We may be able to do those questions over the phone. If you have configured Apace before, I was also surprised by Apache 2. I had time to learn it though as I was migrating the websites from my RH 6.2 box. Overall, the configuration files are simpler. The RH 8 install placed all of the Mailman config files in the file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd-mailman.conf file. All you have to do for the setup, is move this file into /etc/httpd/conf.d/ directory. Oops, I did uncomment the one line which is suggested in the file. > In /var I have a www folder - and in /etc/ I have what looks like all of the > configuration files. Correct. I didn't dwell into the /var/www folder, but it is where you can find the apache documentation and where RH expects you to put CGIs and websites. > I am assuming I need to edit the httpd.conf as I don't think the redhat > install took it that far. The RH install provides the default configuration. Works pretty well, but typically gets modified as you build web sites. > What should my httpd.conf file look like considering the information above > as to where my installs are. This is non-mailman specific. So let's take it off the list and talk about this. > 2. Also not sure if this a related issue but http server gui that comes with > RedHat freezes up on me everytime I try to edit the properties - any ideas? Are you configuring from a desktop GUI? I don't have experience with this. Questions like this are more appropriate for the Red Hat 8 mailing list. I am also a member of this. The mailing address for this list is [EMAIL PROTECTED] I signed up for it somewhere on the Red Hat website. > Thanks for your help.. Keep passing questions, I'll answer as I am available. For once, I can help someone!! Yeah! > john ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org