[Mailman-Users] Totally lost Newbie needs help, Please

[tenant]

We would appreciate guidance from members of this list. After yearss of 
being hosted by an ISP and ussing Majordomo, we've moved to our own 
co-located server running Redhat Linux 6.1 that we administer. Our 
understanding of Linux is limited. Any help will be appreciated.

Following the install directions, we created a mailman account at 
/home/mailman. Also created group mailman -- and chmod'd as per install 
instructions.

$ whereis python
python: /usr/bin/python1.5 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/python1.5

$ whereis gcc
gcc: /usr/bin/gcc /usr/man/man1/gcc.1

So when we run configure, we get:

$ ./configure --with-mail-gid=12 --with-cgi-gid=nobody
./configure: ./config.log: Permission denied
./configure: 5: Bad file descriptor
./configure: confdefs.h: Permission denied
creating cache ./config.cache
./configure: ./config.cache: Permission denied
checking for --with-python... ./configure: 5: Bad file descriptor
checking for python... ./configure: 5: Bad file descriptor
/usr/bin/python
checking Python interpreter... ./configure: 5: Bad file descriptor
/usr/bin/python
checking for a BSD compatible install... ./configure: 5: Bad file descriptor
/usr/bin/install -c
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... ./configure: 5: Bad file descriptor
./configure: conftestmake: Permission denied
no
checking for true... ./configure: 5: Bad file descriptor
/bin/true
checking for --without-gcc... ./configure: 5: Bad file descriptor
no
checking for gcc... ./configure: 5: Bad file descriptor
gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... ./configure: 5: Bad file 
descriptor
./configure: conftest.c: Permission denied
./configure: 5: Bad file descriptor
./configure: 5: Bad file descriptor
./configure: 5: Bad file descriptor
./configure: 5: Bad file descriptor
no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot 
create executables.

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