Date: 07 Aug 2003 10:11:25 -0500 From: "Kirk R. Wythers" <kwythers@umn.edu> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd and mailman groups Message-ID: <1060269084.4754.6.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu> In-Reply-To: <3F31710E.7020007@mac.com> References: <1060199428.11299.68.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu> <3F31710E.7020007@mac.com>
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On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 16:20, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Kirk R. Wythers wrote:
> [ ... ]
> > I was hoping for some advice as to easiest way to fix this. I'm always
> > nervous when something says "try tweaking the mail server", but I don't
> > want to re-run ./configure if it will mess up something that I have
> > already set up...
>
> The easiest way would to be install Mailman via the port. In particular,
> /usr/ports/mail/mailman/Makefile suggests:
>
> CONFIGURE_ARGS= --prefix=${MAILMANDIR} --with-python=${PYTHON_CMD} \
> --with-username=${MM_USERNAME} \
> --with-groupname=${MM_GROUPNAME} \
> --with-mail-gid=${MAIL_GID} --with-cgi-gid=${CGI_GID}
>
so would this be done like this:
1.make deinstall
2.make reinstall --with-mail-gid=mail
> .include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
>
> # The Mailman port supports a number of variables that may be tweaked at
> # build time. Getting the values of some of them right is crucial!
> # Perform a "make options" to see more information on these variables.
> #
> MM_USERNAME?= mailman
> MM_USERID?= 91
> MM_GROUPNAME?= ${MM_USERNAME}
> MM_GROUPID?= ${MM_USERID}
> MM_DIR?= mailman
> .if ${OSVERSION} >= 450000
> MAIL_GID?= mailnull
> .else
> MAIL_GID?= daemon
> .endif
> CGI_GID?= www
> IMGDIR= www/icons
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