[Mailman-Users] Help a beginner, please

[Baranyai Laszlo]

Hi!

I am very new in mailman. The root installed(?) the mailman, and it is in
the
 /etc/mailman
 /var/mailman (mainly links to /usr/lib/mailman and a public_html
               directory)
 /usr/lib/mailman
directories (Debian Linux OS, Apache webserver). 

When I try to use newlist, it creates a subdirectory in etc/mailman
and copies some html files there.

Unfortunately it does not work and I have no idea how to set everything.

Could you help me? (I have no INSTALL documentation for example. Where can
I find it? )
I receive error messages like this:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 06:25:12 +0100
From: Cron Daemon <root at elfiz2.kee.hu>
To: root at elfiz2.kee.hu
Subject: Cron <root at elfiz2> run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily

/etc/cron.daily/cracklib:
45375 45375
/etc/cron.daily/mailman:
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 73, in ?
    main()
  File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 28, in main
    list = maillist.MailList(name)
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/maillist.py", line 64, in __init__
    self.Load()
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/maillist.py", line 546, in Load
    self.Lock()
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/maillist.py", line 887, in Lock
    self._lock_file = posixfile.open(
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/posixfile.py", line 216, in open
    return _posixfile_().open(name, mode, bufsize)
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/posixfile.py", line 81, in open
    return self.fileopen(__builtin__.open(name, mode, bufsize))
IOError: (13, 'Permission denied')
Exception exceptions.AttributeError: '_file_' in <method _posixfile_.__del__ of _posixfile_ instance at 80afab0> ignored
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 37, in ?
    main()
  File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 30, in main
    list = maillist.MailList(name)
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/maillist.py", line 64, in __init__
    self.Load()
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/maillist.py", line 546, in Load
    self.Lock()
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/maillist.py", line 887, in Lock
    self._lock_file = posixfile.open(
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/posixfile.py", line 216, in open
    return _posixfile_().open(name, mode, bufsize)
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/posixfile.py", line 81, in open
    return self.fileopen(__builtin__.open(name, mode, bufsize))
IOError: (13, 'Permission denied')
Exception exceptions.AttributeError: '_file_' in <method _posixfile_.__del__ of _posixfile_ instance at 80c0b00> ignored
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/mailman exited with return code 1