[Mailman-Users] mailman-2.1-1.i386.rpm

Keith Mastin kmastin at beechtree.ca
Thu Jan 30 00:18:04 CET 2003


>What you don't know (because you've never done it before) is that
>installing via the Source is actually easier with Mailman than
>installing via the RPM.
>
>Installing via the RPM is buggy and only works if no default has been
>touched - plus you still need to do all the work that is associated with
>installing via source (installing the crontabs, etc).
>
>It takes me less than 10 minutes to install Mailman via source on a Red
>Hat system.
>
>Jon Carnes

But having the rpm around came in handy for this NooB the other day... I 
install the production server via source in a non-standard filesystem, and 
plopped in the rpm to have a permissions comparison.. and voila', I can 
now see the list archives over the web :))

Sweet piece o' work, BTW...




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