From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 30 20:18: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c007.snv.cp.net (c007-h012.c007.snv.cp.net [209.228.33.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C261E37B422 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 20:18:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (cpmta 9708 invoked from network); 30 Dec 2001 20:18:07 -0800 Received: from 64.130.100.249 (HELO winbox1) by smtp.directvinternet.com (209.228.33.219) with SMTP; 30 Dec 2001 20:18:07 -0800 X-Sent: 31 Dec 2001 04:18:07 GMT Message-ID: <053e01c191b2$2b183ee0$6401a8c0@crotchett.com> From: "Darren" To: Subject: mailman on freebsd Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 22:18:14 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am setting up my first list server on FreeBSD. I used the ports/packages to install Mailman. Following the setup directions on the Mailman website has raised a couple of questions. The first question is in regards to the warning in the documentation to not be root while running ./configure. I suppose that is so that the files are owned by a regular user. Since I didn't have to run configure, and since I was root when I installed the Mailman from the ports or pkgs (I don't recall which), I was concerned that I might need to change the owners of all of the files in the mailman directory from root to mailman. Should I chown -R mailman /usr/local/mailman? Apparently, other distributions put mailman in /home. At this point in the install, permissions are supposed to be checked (with /usr/local/mailman/bin/check_perms -f) as the user who installed Mailman. They checked out OK as root. But, here is where I realized that I could not su to mailman. I do have a user mailman that the ports set up for me. But, the shell is /sbin/nologin. I tried changing that to another shell and giving mailman a password. But, that still didn't help. I still get the message, "This account is currently not available". Not being able to su to mailman looks like it is going to be a problem when I get to the crontab step. Thanks in advance, Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message