[Mailman-Users] 14 hours and still not there

[Paul H Byerly]

Jon Carnes wrote:
>Looks like you are setting up Mailman in a chrooted environment.

      Correct.  If I understand correctly, in chroot the server does not 
know anything above it exists?  It thinks that tmblists.com is the root 
directory?

>This is not for the faint of heart.

      Tell me about it!

>I've done a few of these and they take a lot of tweaks to setup properly.

      I've tweaked every way I can think of.  I need to do some searching 
on changing the sendmail configuration I guess.

>The only real advice I can give is to take it slowly and test each step. 
>If you understand what mailman is doing and how chrooted environments work 
>then you will persevere

      Unfortunately my understanding of both is limited.  I'm willing to 
take the time to learn, but I don't even know where to start.  Any hints 
where I can find the resources to learn what I need to know?  I did a 
search on Google for  ' "chrooted environment" +mailman ' and got a lot of 
hits - but they all have "mailman" in an included URL as it's part of a 
mailman list and nothing of help.  I've been thru all the readmes in mailman.

>Good Luck - Jon Carnes

      I'm going to need it!  I have found plenty of people looking to get 
Mailman working under Ensim, but no one offering a how to.  Ensim is 
becoming more and more used, and sooner or later someone is going to cover 
this.  If I ever get it running I will do a how to.


      One other question, on getting CGI to run.  Apparently Ensim won't 
deal with cgi files that have permissions above 755.  When I ran a 
re-configure after changing the CGI directories to 755, the checkperms saw 
this as an error and changed it.  If I change the permissions after I'm up 
and running is this going to break anything in Mailman?


<>< Paul, who would get a plain Red Hat box for Mailman if he had the $$.