Hello all: We jumped through those permission hurdles and got a successful installation of mailman this evening.
I'd advise that instead of talking generally about setgid, that the INSTALL file instruct us to: chmod 02775 /usr/local/mailman But that is not why I'm writing this evening. bash-2.05$ ls -al /etc/aliases lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 12 Aug 10 09:43 /etc/aliases -> mail/aliases bash-2.05$ ls -al /etc/mail/aliases -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1516 Jul 28 04:08 /etc/mail/aliases I'm on a FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0 server. I'm a Debian man myself. This is my first exposure to BSD. I, as an unprivleged user, and a member of the mailman group, am supposed to administer this installation. Hopefully without bothering our root user everytime we need to create another list. I'm expecting to have to create and delegate out about 150 or so lists in the next couple of weeks. I administer an existing installation of 2.0.8 with perhaps 20, 30 or so lists. I created a shell script which automates the creation of new lists on that server, by echoing the aliases into .qmail files. (Someone else handled the installation on that machine). But I don't have to be root to do that. Is there anyway around this? Will my /etc/aliases file work if I have root chmod 664 on the file? Will I as a member of wheel be able to edit it then? Will it create any security holes for me to create a script to handle this alias creation for me? --- On another question, I am building a perl script on another remote server to permit folks to subscribe themselves to multiple lists by completing check boxes and submitting a web form. How can I automate the necessary interaction with mailman? Will mailman accept emailed commands like majordomo does? Or can I somehow create a ssh tunnel to interact directly with the mailman server? Could I perhaps build a database of subscribe requests that the list server could interact with on a cron job? Are there other ways this might be accomplished? All help is appreciated. -- Hugh Esco ------------------------------------------------------ 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/
