[TriLUG] Re: Mailman Setup?

Lance A. Brown lance at bearcircle.net
Wed Aug 20 16:54:26 EDT 2003


Run the check permissions program in the mailman bin directory.  It 
should flag any problems like this for you.

--[Lance]

Ryan Wheaton wrote:

> yo.
>
> so i think i'm well on my way to getting this thing installed.  I just 
> configured apache to use mailman, but whenever i try to connect to the 
> /mailman/ directory, i get the following error:
>
>
> We're sorry, we hit a bug!
>
> If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy 
> of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what 
> happened. Thanks!
>
>
> Traceback:
>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/var/mailman/scripts/driver", line 68, in run_main
>     immediate=1)
>   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Logging/StampedLogger.py", line 52, in 
> __init__
>     Logger.__init__(self, category, nofail, immediate)
>   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 49, in __init__
>     self.__get_f()
>   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 67, in __get_f
>     1)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/codecs.py", line 496, in open
>     file = __builtin__.open(filename, mode, buffering)
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/mailman/error'
>
>
> is this because i haven't set up my mailer yet?  or is it cause i did 
> something else wrong? (permissions?)
>
> At 05:11 PM 8/18/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 16:29, Ryan Wheaton wrote:
>> > hey guys,
>> >
>> > Probably tomorrow I'm gonna dive head first into my first install of
>> > Mailman (2.1) on a fresh install of RH 9.  I can't find too much
>> > documentation on installation or setup of Mailman (haven't checked the
>> > READMEs that come in the .gz yet) so I'm assuming that most 
>> everything is
>> > in the READMEs.  Just wanted to ping the list and see if there's 
>> anything I
>> > should know before jumping in, or if anyone had any good links to some
>> > docs.  I've googled, but can't find much.  I figure someone has 
>> something
>> > to say since i'm positive that _someone_ here has installed it 
>> before :-)
>> >
>> > -r
>>
>> If you are installing via source (Kudos!) then the readmes will do a
>> great job of walking you through it.
>>
>> I recommend that you use Postfix as the MTA and follow the
>> POSTFIX.README. This will integrate your list creation very nicely!
>>
>> Also, since you are installing from source, look up the htdig patches
>> and install those before you crank on the final make.  You'll have to
>> install htdig before installing Mailman, but it makes all the archives
>> easily searchable - a definite plus.
>>
>> Good Luck - Jon Carnes
>>
>>
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