[Mailman-Users] newbie: 2.0.10 not creating lists correctly?

[Dick Balaska]

Hi ho,

I am trying to love mailman.

First i had to upgrade python, i'm sticking w/my old gcc and libc5.
> Python 2.2.1 (#1, May  9 2002, 18:12:32) 
> [GCC egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs-1.0.3 release)] on linux2

mailman 2.0.10

./configure --prefix=/home/mailman --with-var-prefix=/var/mailman --with-cgi-gid=web
--with-cgi-gid=nogroup 

oh, and i'm using qmail.

So when i type `newlist test` i get a symlink created to nowhere.  Is that correct?
/var/mailman/archives/public/test -> /var/mailman/archives/private/test

I am also having qmail issues, i.e. mail sent to the list, list-admin, or list-control
goes into a black hole; but i'm guessing that this problem should be solved first.
No, that's not quite right.  Mail goes into mailman; i see 2 "pending subscription"s,
but mailman is unable to send mail out.  I see an identd to the mail target and then
a bounce line 
May 10 01:27:00 2002 (4499) Test: dik at bucko_soft.com - first
I also get a post failure, probably related to the missing private/test
May 10 01:27:00 2002 (4499) post to test from mailman-owner at duke.bucko_soft.com,
size=1321, 1 failures

Thanks
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[duke:/var/mailman/archives] ls -alR
total 4
drwxrwsr-x   4 mailman  mailman      1024 May  9 22:50 .
drwxrwsrwx  10 mailman  mailman      1024 May  9 22:50 ..
drwxrws--x   4 mailman  mailman      1024 May 11 18:24 private
drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman  mailman      1024 May 11 18:24 public

private:
total 4
drwxrws--x   4 mailman  mailman      1024 May 11 18:24 .
drwxrwsr-x   4 mailman  mailman      1024 May  9 22:50 ..
drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman  mailman      1024 May 10 01:26 test.mbox
drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman  mailman      1024 May 11 18:24 test1.mbox

private/test.mbox:
total 2
drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman  mailman      1024 May 10 01:26 .
drwxrws--x   4 mailman  mailman      1024 May 11 18:24 ..

private/test1.mbox:
total 2
drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman  mailman      1024 May 11 18:24 .
drwxrws--x   4 mailman  mailman      1024 May 11 18:24 ..

public:
total 2
drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman  mailman      1024 May 11 18:24 .
drwxrwsr-x   4 mailman  mailman      1024 May  9 22:50 ..
lrwxrwxrwx   1 mailman  mailman        34 May 10 01:26 test ->
/var/mailman/archives/private/test
lrwxrwxrwx   1 mailman  mailman        39 May 10 01:26 test.mbox ->
/var/mailman/archives/private/test.mbox
lrwxrwxrwx   1 mailman  mailman        35 May 11 18:24 test1 ->
/var/mailman/archives/private/test1
lrwxrwxrwx   1 mailman  mailman        40 May 11 18:24 test1.mbox ->
/var/mailman/archives/private/test1.mbox
[duke:/var/mailman/archives] 
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