[Mailman-Users] Program to Change List Real Name

2011-06-02 Thread UUN Hostmaster
Mailman Folks, Who do I convert these manual instructions into a program? bin/withlist bar m.real_name='bar' m.Lock() m.Save() m.Unlock() ^D Thanks. Jim -- Mailman-Users mailing

[Mailman-Users] problem with mailman handling incomming mail

2011-06-02 Thread Maxime Longuepee
Hi! I have mailman installed on my freebsd server. I am running postfix+dovecot with mysql support for my mail server. Everything is working perfectly except mailman gives error on incomming mail. Here is the error (I replaced my real domain name in the error message with mydomain.org):

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 6/1/11 10:23 PM, Steven Jones wrote: Starting mailman: Site list is missing: mailman mailmanctl can't find the file /var/lib/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck. -- Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.netThe highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, CaliforniaBetter use your sense -

Re: [Mailman-Users] problem with mailman handling incomming mail

2011-06-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 6/1/11 6:50 AM, Maxime Longuepee wrote: The mail system |/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman@mail.mydomain.org (expanded from mail...@mail.mydomain.org): unknown user: |/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman* Postfix is apparently trying to

[Mailman-Users] Cannot Lock Mailing Lists

2011-06-02 Thread UUN Hostmaster
Mailman Gurus, I'm running Mailman 2.1.14 CPanel Version. When I try to update a mailing list with config_list or with_list, the program hangs. # ../bin/withlist fuustl-coffeehourchat_lists.firstuustlouis.org Loading list fuustl-coffeehourchat_lists.firstuustlouis.org (unlocked) The variable

Re: [Mailman-Users] Program to Change List Real Name

2011-06-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 6/1/11 8:51 PM, UUN Hostmaster wrote: Mailman Folks, Who do I convert these manual instructions into a program? bin/withlist bar m.real_name='bar' m.Lock() m.Save() m.Unlock() ^D First of all, that is wrong. the m.Lock()

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cannot Lock Mailing Lists

2011-06-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 6/2/11 8:00 AM, UUN Hostmaster wrote: # ../bin/withlist fuustl-coffeehourchat_lists.firstuustlouis.org Loading list fuustl-coffeehourchat_lists.firstuustlouis.org (unlocked) The variable `m' is the fuustl-coffeehourchat_lists.firstuustlouis.org MailList instance m.real_name =

Re: [Mailman-Users] problem with mailman handling incomming mail

2011-06-02 Thread Maxime Longuepee
Hi Mark! Thanks for your reply! Here is the output of postconf -n: address_verify_map = btree:/var/spool/postfix/address_verify broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes command_directory = /usr/local/sbin config_directory = /usr/local/etc/postfix daemon_directory = /usr/local/libexec/postfix

Re: [Mailman-Users] problem with mailman handling incomming mail

2011-06-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 6/2/11 8:13 AM, Maxime Longuepee wrote: Here is the output of postconf -n: [...] virtual_alias_maps = mysql:$config_directory/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf,hash:/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases This is wrong. You need to add hash:/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases to alias_maps, not to

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
So the file is there.how to I get it to find it again? Also I suspect its the same with all the lists. regards From: Mark Sapiro [m...@msapiro.net] Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 2:34 a.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re:

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 6/2/2011 12:55 PM, Steven Jones wrote: So the file is there.how to I get it to find it again? Also I suspect its the same with all the lists. Probably it is all lists. The first thing mailmanctl does is set its user and group to those of Mailman. So there are two

Re: [Mailman-Users] Program to Change List Real Name

2011-06-02 Thread UUN Hostmaster
On 6/1/11 8:51 PM, UUN Hostmaster wrote: Mailman Folks, Who do I convert these manual instructions into a program? bin/withlist bar m.real_name='bar' m.Lock() m.Save() m.Unlock() ^D First of all, that is wrong. the m.Lock()

Re: [Mailman-Users] Program to Change List Real Name

2011-06-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 6/2/2011 2:13 PM, UUN Hostmaster wrote: Mark Sapiro wrote: However, if this is cPanel there may be problems with the above. What kinds of problems do you anticipate with cPanel Mailman? I looked at the config_list of a CPanel Mailman mailing list: list-name_domain-name.tld. It appears

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
Fixed the first one.tried restarting, same message.did the second with -f which fixed ownerships (I have a case into Red Hat on this... but it still wont start. PREFIX = /usr/lib/mailman VAR_PREFIX = /var/lib/mailman I think these are correct regards

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
To add mailman will not start, still. regards From: mailman-users-bounces+steven.jones=vuw.ac...@python.org [mailman-users-bounces+steven.jones=vuw.ac...@python.org] on behalf of Steven Jones [steven.jo...@vuw.ac.nz] Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 10:58 a.m.

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 6/2/2011 3:58 PM, Steven Jones wrote: Fixed the first one.tried restarting, same message.did the second with -f which fixed ownerships (I have a case into Red Hat on this... but it still wont start. PREFIX = /usr/lib/mailman VAR_PREFIX = /var/lib/mailman I think these are

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
-rw-rw. 1 mailman mailman 3902 Jun 2 12:00 /var/lib/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck From: Mark Sapiro [m...@msapiro.net] Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 11:12 a.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] error on

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 6/2/2011 4:54 PM, Steven Jones wrote: -rw-rw. 1 mailman mailman 3902 Jun 2 12:00 /var/lib/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck So it looks like the 'mailman' user can access the config.pck. So, how are you starting Mailman. Are you running /var/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl start Or

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, Service mailman restart Here is the startup script, = #!/bin/sh # # mailmanThis shell script starts and stops GNU Mailman. # # Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 6/2/2011 6:03 PM, Steven Jones wrote: Here is the startup script, [...] MAILMANHOME=/usr/lib/mailman MAILMANCTL=$MAILMANHOME/bin/mailmanctl ASo your script is starting /usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl rather than /var/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl. Presumably the insatllation in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Program to Change List Real Name

2011-06-02 Thread UUN Hostmaster
On 6/2/2011 2:13 PM, UUN Hostmaster wrote: Mark Sapiro wrote: I am migrating some Majordomo Mailing lists to a CPanel Mailman installation. So what are you really trying to accomplish? If you create the lists with cPanel's list create process (as opposed to Mailman's bin/newlist) they

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
Yes, the lists themselves are under /var.the mailman binaries are under /usr regards From: Mark Sapiro [m...@msapiro.net] Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 1:08 p.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 6/2/11 6:44 PM, Steven Jones wrote: Yes, the lists themselves are under /var.the mailman binaries are under /usr OK. What does /usr/lib/mailman/bin/dumpdb /var/lib/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck return. Does it dump a bunch of data that looks like the attributes of a list or

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
true and false things, 0's 1's etc send_welcome_msg : True, etc so yes its looks like attributes. regards From: Mark Sapiro [m...@msapiro.net] Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 2:54 p.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re:

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
I have a nasty feeling about selinux will check regards From: Mark Sapiro [m...@msapiro.net] Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 2:54 p.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman On 6/2/11

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
Looks like it was selinuxi set it to permissive, rebooted and mailman appears to be up... :/ regards From: mailman-users-bounces+steven.jones=vuw.ac...@python.org [mailman-users-bounces+steven.jones=vuw.ac...@python.org] on behalf of Steven Jones