From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 25 5:55:11 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30DC837B401 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 05:55:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de (antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de [134.102.176.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09CF643FBF for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 05:55:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de) Received: from taipeh.ant.uni-bremen.de ([134.102.176.3] helo=ant.uni-bremen.de ident=rebehn) by antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18nfY6-000ALW-00; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:55:10 +0100 Message-ID: <3E5B7589.9070102@ant.uni-bremen.de> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:54:17 +0100 From: Heinrich Rebehn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Kellers Cc: Per olof Ljungmark , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrade of Mailman from ports fails: unable to set GID References: <3E5239ED.10500@intersonic.se> <200302181358.01534.timothyk@wallnet.com> In-Reply-To: <200302181358.01534.timothyk@wallnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Tim Kellers wrote: > I just portupgraded an instance of Mailman from 2.1b4 to 2.1.1 and, while I > was able to set the GID without a problem (sendmail MTA), I had this response > to both /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mailman.sh start and mailmanctl: > > eris# ./mailmanctl -s start > Site list is missing: mailman > > I compared the files in /usr/local/mailman/bin with another machine that's > running 2.1b4 and I didn't find anything startlingly different --even the > Defaults.py and mm_cfg.py files were the same. > > I ftp'd the mailmanctl file from the 2.1b4 server to the server with 2.1.1 > installed, ran the mailman.sh start script and everything (appears, so far) > to be working fine. Just to verify that it wasn't a portupgrade issue, I > pkg_delete'd mailman and built a fresh install; I got the same error on > starting mailmanctl with the file from 2.1.1. > > Looks like 2.1.1 has some issues, has anyone gotten it to run out-of-the-box > from ports?? > > Tim Kellers > CPE/NJIT Hi, Tim From /usr/local/share/doc/mailman/NEWS: o There is now a `site list' which is a mailing list that must be created first, and from which all password reminders appear to come from. It is recommended that this list be called "mailman@your.site". After creating the above list, mailmanctl worked! Heinrich -- Heinrich Rebehn University of Bremen Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering - Department of Telecommunications - E-mail: mailto:rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de Phone : +49/421/218-4664 Fax : -3341 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message