[Mailman-Users] new trouble with existing lists

[Jon Carnes]

You'll probably get a better response on a FreeBSD mailing list... but
(from memory), the proper location for FreeBSD startup script is
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/

If that doesn't work you might try: man rc.conf

Good Luck - Jon Carnes

On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 20:15, backdoc wrote:
> Thank you very much for the help.  The problem was that I didn't have a 
> mailman mailing list and I needed to start the mailmanctl daemon.
> 
> I wasn't aware of these changes to Mailman.
> 
> I have a new question, though.  Where should I put the 
> "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/bin/mailmanctl start" command in FreeBSD so 
> that it starts on boot?
> 
> TIA,
> Darren
> 
> Jon Carnes wrote:
> > Read FAQ 3.14
> > 
> > It looks like either your cron daemon is not running (for Mailman
> > versions 2.0.x and below) - or your mailmanctl daemon is not runing (for
> > Mailman versions 2.1.x and above).
> > 
> > Jon Carnes
> > 
> > On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 10:29, backdoc wrote:
> > 
> >>	Problem description:
> >>
> >>I can no longer subscribe to or send mail to my lists.
> >>
> >>	Here's some detail.
> >>
> >> From the standpoint of being able to use the mailing lists (subscribe, 
> >>post messages, etc), the lists had been working for several weeks. 
> >>Then, spontaneously, all of the normal list server tasks quit working 
> >>except for the web interface.  Attempting to subscribe to a mailing list 
> >>results in a page that says a "confirmation has been sent ...".  But, I 
> >>never receive that confirmation mail.
> >>
> >>I have looked at all of the logs in /mailman/logs to see if I could see 
> >>any references to my attempts to subscribe to the list.  But, I do not. 
> >>    /var/log/messages does not show any references to Mailman either.
> >>
> >>My mail server is Postfix.  It seems to operate normally in every way.
> >>
> >>	Some possible clues:
> >>
> >>I don't really have any strong suspicions that point to a particular 
> >>culprit.  I don't generally muck around with my server except to keep 
> >>the installed software up to date via portupgrade.  I don't really 
> >>remember if the lists not working coorelates to running portupgrade. 
> >>But, I don't think so.
> >>
> >>Due to the fact that I own 2 domains and the domain name for the box is 
> >>not the same domain name of the list I have created the lists for, there 
> >>was a minor issue regarding the wrong URL showing up on the web 
> >>interface portion of Mailman.  It was showing the box domain name as 
> >>opposed to the list domain name.  The incorrect URL did not appear to 
> >>have an adverse affect.  But, it was potentially confusing for users. 
> >>So, I made a few attempts to correct it by altering the mm_cfg.py file. 
> >>  In spite of some good suggestions here on the mailman-users list, I 
> >>never resolved that problem.  Again, I can't associate Mailman breaking 
> >>with attempts to fix the URL problem.
> >>
> >>	What additional info can I give you to help you help me?
> >>
> >>That's about all that I can think of to shed light on the problem.  Not 
> >>seeing anything in the log files, I don't really know how to backtrace 
> >>the problem?  Even though I don't feel like I broke it by editing the 
> >>mm_cfg.py file or running portupgrade, I'm sure that I have somehow 
> >>broken it.
> >>
> >>Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
> >>
> >>TIA,
> >>Darren
> >>
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