tansta...@libertytrek.org writes: > On 8/2/2009, Stephen J. Turnbull (step...@xemacs.org) wrote: > > (There's no good reason for *any* mailman program to be on anybody's > > PATH, so yes, just having /bin/mailmanctl makes your installation > > nonstandard.) > > Hmmm... Mark didn't seem to agree... he said:
First, if you're sure you know why Mark said what he did, consider him authoritative. (For future reference, Barry Warsaw and Brad Knowles should also be considered authoritative unless they disagree. [...@brad: I know you like to deprecate your expertise these days, but you don't spout off unless you do know, or at least provide appropriate caveats.] :-) Me? I'm definitely of the persuasion that it is better to be in error than in doubt. :-) However, in this case, I was assuming that Mark simply took you at your word that mailmanctl lives in /bin, not in something like /usr/lib/mailman/bin (which is where it is on Debian; it is also visible at /var/lib/mailman/bin). My point was simply that normally Mailman functions are invoked from CGI scripts, the MTA, or an init script, so having the full path is not a burden. None of the Mailman servers I have access to have /bin/mailmanctl, so I believe it's nonstandard (at the very least I would expect it to be in /sbin, more likely /usr/sbin, and most likely, for the reasons mentioned, in none of them :-). The word "nonstandard" was not meant to be critical of your setup, except as far as it makes our advice less accurate. > Or are you speaking strictly in terms of the fact that I'm on a gentoo > system? No. I do run Gentoo on my workstation, but my mailman server is on Debian, so I don't know about the Gentoo package. (My preference is to run the oldest OS that can run my services, and Debian stable fits that bill quite nicely. :-) ------------------------------------------------------ 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
