[Mailman-Users] mailman broke... continued

[Richard Barrett]

At 09:48 15/04/2003, Richard Glover wrote:
>When I run apt-get update I get this, if its any help:
>
>Setting up mailman (2.1.1-4) ...
>No updates are necessary.
>Site list is missing: mailman
>invoke-rc.d: initscript mailman, action "start" failed.
>dpkg: error processing mailman (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>Errors were encountered while processing:
>  mailman
>E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>------------------------------------------------------

To run properly Mailman 2.1.1 requires that a site mailing list exists; by 
default the list is itself called mailman. From the above, it looks as 
though this is missing and the 2.1.1 mailmanctl, used to start Mailman 
runners, will not start them without the site mailing list existing..

 From the command line, you could try running the $prefix/bin/newlist 
script to create the mailman site mailing list, do whatever (if anything) 
you need to add the new list's mail aliases to your MTA alias database and 
then try running whatever Mailman startup script you system is using.

[Where above, $prefix is the name of the directory into which the Mailman 
software is installed]