Hi all,
I'm attempting to install and configure mailman. So far what I have
done is this:
apt-get install mailman
which I usually find to be a pretty good start for installing most
things ;-)
Most of the mailman documentation I can find talks about a mailman
user, and a mailman group, and cron jobs owned by that user. The
install doesn't seem to have created such users on my system: there
is no mailman in /etc/passwd and:
# for i in `awk -F ":" "{print $1;}" /etc/passwd` ; do crontab -u $i -l ; done
does not show any users with any cron jobs at all.
The script /usr/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms reports that all
permissions are set correctly when I run it as root. I suspect that
root is not the right user to run it as, but then I don't seem to have
a mailman user that I could run it as. All of the mailman stuff seems
to be owned by root.
I can create a new list using the newlist command, and I get the
informative email about the list OK, but when I try to subscribe to
the list, using either the web or mail interface, I get messages like
this:
Aug 10 01:00:02 2002 qrunner(3520): Traceback (most recent call last):
Aug 10 01:00:02 2002 qrunner(3520): File
"/usr/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 276, in ?
Aug 10 01:00:02 2002 qrunner(3520): lock.lock(timeout=0.5)
Aug 10 01:00:02 2002 qrunner(3520): File
"/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 219, in lock
Aug 10 01:00:02 2002 qrunner(3520): self.__write()
Aug 10 01:00:02 2002 qrunner(3520): File
"/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 350, in __write
Aug 10 01:00:02 2002 qrunner(3520): fp = open(self.__tmpfname,
'w')
Aug 10 01:00:02 2002 qrunner(3520): IOError : [Errno 13] Permission
denied: '/var/lib/mailman/locks/qrunner.lock.pinky.3520'
A quick bit of googling will show a number of people with this
problem, but the only solutions I could find talked about having the
cron jobs entered twice or something, and since I don't even have them
once this seems a bit irrelevant.
So is there some bit of documentation I am missing, or is this some
undocumented setup magic that you need to know to use mailman, or is
there something wrong with mailman or my system?
Thanks
Tom
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