On 2/27/19 2:03 PM, I wrote: > On 2/27/19 12:22 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> On 2/27/19 9:36 AM, John wrote: >>> hmmm... I have mailman on 2 systems. One does not start on boot. >>> Referencing >>> the manual link, I have no misc/mailman on either system.(?) Both systems >>> are >>> ubuntu (different versions), with Virtualmin. >> >> misc/mailman is in the source distribution. If you installed the >> Debian/Ubuntu package, you probably don't have that, but it appears you >> do have /etc/init.d/mailman >> >>> From the failing system: >>> root>systemctl status mailman >>> ● mailman.service - LSB: Mailman Master Queue Runner >>> Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/mailman; bad; vendor preset: enabled) >> These are normal. >> >>> Active: inactive (dead) >> This of course is not. >> >> Are the ownership and mode of /etc/init.d/mailman the same on both >> systems and is there any difference in the contents? >> >> You might try 'systemctl enable mailman' on the non-starting system. >> >> -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco >> Bay >> Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > > I forgot I found the problem before, reminded myself by debugging again... ;-) > The directory /var/run/mailman is going away on reboot, so mailman can't > create > the pid file. The work-around is to create /var/run/mailman with the proper > permissions & ownership and start the mailman service. I'm going to compare > my 2 > init.d files, if there is no difference, I am going to patch the init.d file > to > check for /var/run/mailman... > > Thanks, > John >
scratch the patching... apparently something on my system is wonky, as mailman, as expected, correctly tries to set up the required directories. John ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
