Mark,

thanks for your reply. But i believe you misunderstood; all files have been taken from the source distribution (or were put in their current locations during 'make install'). I have used no packages in this endeavor.

I double checked and ran diff; <source>/misc/mailman and /etc/rc.d/init.d/mailman are an exact match. they should be as i put it there today myself.

so, what else?

- Fabe S.


On 2015-10-06 14:13, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 10/06/2015 10:30 AM, fsanti...@garbage-juice.com wrote:

I've installed / compiled mailman 2.1.20 from source on centos 7. works
fine when manually operated via:

bin/mailmanctl start / stop

when i copy the mailman script from /scripts to /etc/rc.d/init.d and
perform 'chkconfig --add mailman', and then try to start it via:


You should be using the configured init.d script from misc/mailman in
the directory in which you configured the source distribution.


systemctl start mailman

it does actually start (I can see the processes) but on the CLI, it
reports start failed. When I ask for the status, it tells me:
...
Now, the readout states the pid file as
/usr/lib/mailman/data/master-qrunner.pid, which doesn't exist.

When started manually via mailmanctl, the pid file that is created is:
/var/lib/mailman/data/master-qrunner.pid

When started via systemctl, despite the reported error, the pid file
actually exists under /var/lib...

So systemd is looking in the wrong spot for the pid apparently.

Where can I make a change to tell systemd where to look? Thanks everyone.


Probably in something like /etc/sysconfig/mailman, but if you want to
run the source distribution, you should be using it 100%. If you install
from source but use init.d scripts, crontabs, etc. from a package,
you're asking for trouble.
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