[Mailman-Users] help setting up mailing list

[C. Bensend]

On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Justin Zygmont wrote:

> I am having difficulty getting a mailing list to work, when I create a new
> list, it doesn't send a message to me (root) telling me which page to to
> go or how to subscribe.  I don't think this is a permission problem but
> bin/check_perms will not run correctly from any directory.

If check_perms doesn't run correctly, how are you sure it's not
a permissions problem?

What directory are you trying to run check_perms from?

What are the permissions on ~mailman/bin/check_perms?

What error messages do you get when you try to run check_perms?

What does /var/log/maillog say about things?

> Does anyone know why I wouldn't recieve a message when I create a new
> list?  I see that the mailman logs say failure but doesn't say why and
> var/log/messages doesn't report anything.

What do the various log files in ~mailman/logs say?

Toss us a bone here - we're not mindreaders.  :)  We need
some more information to try to help.

Benny


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