David Abrahams wrote: > >Heh, and even if I do that, I don't end up with a >/usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases.
You have to create /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases with execute permission and containing /bin/cp /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases /etc/mailman.aliases /usr/bin/newaliases >It seems like something needs to >tell newaliases about /etc/mailman.aliases, and the only thing I see >in the instructions that could do it is a later step: It is the POSTFIX_ALIAS_CMD = '/usr/bin/sudo /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases' That tells the process to run that file in order to update system aliases from the /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases that the process creates/updates. > 3. We have to tell sendmail about the new alias file. > > in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc find this line: > define(`ALIAS_FILE', `/etc/aliases')dnl > and change it to: > define(`ALIAS_FILE', `/etc/aliases,/etc/mailman.aliases')dnl > Run a make (or otherwise refresh sendmail.cf and then restart sendmail > > Now when we run newaliases, it will rebuild both alias files. > >Am I missing something? I feel like I'm groping around in the dark >here. Here's what happens: 1) You create /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases with execute permission and containing /bin/cp /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases /etc/mailman.aliases /usr/bin/newaliases This will actually be run later. 2) You put in mm_cfg.py MTA='Postfix' POSTFIX_ALIAS_CMD = '/usr/bin/sudo /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases' What this does is it tells Mailman's bin/genaliases and list creation/deletion processes to run Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py as part of the process to deal with aliases. This in turn updates data/aliases (a fixed file name) and then invokes POSTFIX_ALIAS_CMD to update the system aliases. That command runs the script in /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases (as root) to copy the aliases to /etc/mailman.aliases (This is necessary because of point 1. in the post at <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2004-June/037518.html>) and run /usr/bin/newaliases to update Sendmail's database. Now Mailman aliases are being automatically maintained in /etc/mailman.aliases, but none of this actually happens until step 5. of the above post's instructions. 3) You add /etc/mailman.aliases to Sendmail's configuration so Sendmail will use that file. You do the other steps as outlined in the post. Does this help? -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
