TGPlatt, WebMaster wrote: >I'm a new mailman server administrator. I'm trying to install the app on my >server for a new client who has been running it for 2 years on another host. >I'm using Python 2.4.5 (a fresh install downloaded from the Python.org site >and mailman 2.1.11 downloaded from SourceForge via the www.lists.org site >(i.e. these are pure vanilla - straight from the box - installs) It's >installed on my dedicated RedHat Linux server running RH v7.1 > > > >Mailman is installed in /usr/local/mailman/ > > > >./Configure, make and "make install" all ran okay from WITHIN >/usr/local/mailman/src once I finally figured out I could not put both the >source and the runtime into /usr./local/mailman and moved the source to the >src subdirectory. > > > >HOWEVER, please note that I have ONLY run "make install" in >/usr/local/mailman/src. I have NOT installed mailman in any user domain's >home directory (or subdirectory) yet.
That's fine. You don't need to. >I DID make my target user domain (lets >call it riverrats) a member of the mailman group; but that's as far as I've >gone at the moment. That may or may not be necessary or advisable depending on what you want. >Mailman isn't even in the search path for the riverrats >domain. I have a hunch this was a mistake or that there's SOMETHING else I >still must do INSIDE the riverrats domain in order to enable users to access >mailman from there. As it stands now, the ONLY way to run the mailman apps >on the server would be for riverrats users to log into /usr/local/mailman >and run them from there. Yipes! :-( Users do not run Mailman applications. Mailman runs as a service. The MTA delivers mail to Mailman's queues via scripts invoked via aliases or perhaps some other method depending on the MTA, and Mailman's queue runners which are started by /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl by root, either directly or at boot time. The various other /usr/local/mailman/bin/* commands are normally only run by Mailman site admins. >I believe I made all the required configuration changes to set up the apache >server properly and I've restarted apache. I also made the required alias >changes and modified the mm_cfg.py file in mailman to reflect the domain's > > > >So, theoretically I SHOULD be ready to run. Except I have a hunch I've >managed to overlook or skip over some key step somewhere. Am I right? Maybe not starting mailmanctl? See <http://wiki.list.org/x/A4E9>, and if you're still having difficulty, let us know what the specific problem is. -- 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://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9