Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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
Oh! The substitution of that word "containing" for the post's "with" made all the difference. :) I read "create this file with these commands" as, "use these commands to create /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases" > 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. Sure. > 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. Uh-huh. But now I have all the products mentioned in step 5 except for mailman.aliases.db. I guess 2 out of 3 ain't bad, but... any clues? > Does this help? Pretty good, thanks, but still a mystery lurks. Where's mailman.aliases.db? -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com ------------------------------------------------------ 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