[Mailman-Users] : Problem Running mailman

[QA Engg]

hi,

I tried the procedure to  install  mailman from the  Wikipedia  and
following errors

>>pallavi at wiki-13:~$ emerge -p mailman
bash: emerge: command not found
>>pallavi at wiki-13:~$ emerge mailman
bash: emerge: command not found
>>pallavi at wiki-13:~$ zless /usr/share/doc/mailman-$version/README.gentoo.gz
gzip: /usr/share/doc/mailman-/README.gentoo.gz: No such file or directory
/usr/share/doc/mailman-/README.gentoo.gz: No such file or directory
>>pallavi at wiki-13:~$ zless /usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.9/README.gentoo.gz
gzip: /usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.9/README.gentoo.gz: No such file or
directory
/usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.9/README.gentoo.gz: No such file or directory
>>pallavi at wiki-13:~$ ebuild /var/db/pkg/net-mail/mailman-2.1.9
/mailman-$VERSION.eb
uild config
bash: ebuild: command not found
>>pallavi at wiki-13:~$ # groups mailman
>>pallavi at wiki-13:~$ cron mailman
cron: can't open or create /var/run/crond.pid: Permission denied
>>pallavi at wiki-13:~$ # cd /usr/local/mailman/cron && crontab -u mailman
crontab.in

>>pallavi at wiki-13:~$ # su - mailman
>>pallavi at wiki-13:~$ $ cd /usr/local/mailman/cron
bash: $: command not found
>>pallavi at wiki-13:~$ $crontab crontab.in
bash: crontab.in: command not found
>>pallavi at wiki-13:~$ $ cd ..
bash: $: command not found
>>pallavi at wiki-13:~$ $ bin/mmsitepass
bash: $: command not found
>>pallavi at wiki-13:~$ $ bin/newlist mailman
bash: $: command not found
>>pallavi at wiki-13:~$ $ bin/config_list -i data/sitelist.cfg mailman
bash: $: command not found
>>pallavi at wiki-13:~$ $ bin/check_perms -f
bash: $: command not found
>>pallavi at wiki-13:~$


Regards
Smita

On 10/20/07, Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net> wrote:
>
> QA Engg wrote:
> >
> >   2.2 Create the Installatio Directory
> >   1.
> >
> >      You cannot install Mailman on a filesystem that is mounted with
> >      the nosuid option not gettting the meaning of set to group
> >      2.
> >
> >       cd $prefix
> >
> >      3.
> >
> >      chgrp mailman .
> >
> >      4.
> >
> >      chmod a+rx,g+ws .
> >
> >               -- Sucessfully run
>
>
> Was the above 'cd $prefix' actually 'cd /usr/local/mailman'? Because
> the next step is telling you  that /usr/local/mailman is not group
> mailman and/or not g+ws.
>
>
> >3 Build and install mailman
> >
> >3.1 Run Configure
> >
> >*cd mailman-<version>*
> >
> >*./configure*
>
>
> This isn't the problem here, but you may wish to specify some options
> to configure such as --with-cgi-gid=, --with-mail-gid=,
> --with-mailhost= and --with-urlhost=
>
>
> >Shows errors 1) checking permissions on /usr/local/mailman... configure:
> >error:
> >
> >2) ***** Installation directory /usr/local/mailman is not configured
> >properly!
> >
> >3) ***** Directory must be owned by group mailman: /usr/local/mailman
>
>
> Indicating that 'chgrp mailman .' above was not run in the
> /usr/local/mailman directory.
>
> You must fix the above and rerun configure. Then you can run 'make
> install'
>
>
> >*sudo make install*
> >
> > 4 Check Your Installlatio
> >
> >4.1
> >
> >   1.
> >
> >   *bin/check_perms -f * bash: bin/check_perms: @PYTHON@: bad
> >   interpreter: No such file or directory
> >   2.
>
>
>
> You have to run /usr/local/mailman/bin/check_perms which won't exist
> until you get the proper ownership and permissions on
> /usr/local/mailman and successfully run configure and make install.
>
> --
> Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
>
>