[Mailman-Users] Genaliases Command Help

[Mark Sapiro]

Carlos Williams wrote:

>When installing MailMan, the guide explains that I need to run the
>/usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases to "to initialize your aliases file".
>I do so as instructed and get the following response:
>
>[root at mail bin]# ./genaliases
>[root at mail bin]#
>
>As you can see I am issued no errors or anything to that nature
>however nothing ever generates an aliases file unless it's somewhere I
>can't find. What am I doing wrong? I don't think this matters but the
>permissions are listed below:


Do you have

MTA = 'Postfix'

in mm_cfg.py


>drwxrwsr-x  13 root mailman    4096 Oct  9 12:15 mailman
>
>[root at mail lib]# cd mailman/
>
>[root at mail mailman]# ls -l
>total 44
>drwxrwsr-x  2 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 bin
>drwxrwsr-x  2 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 cgi-bin
>drwxrwsr-x  2 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 cron
>drwxrwsr-x  2 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 icons
>drwxrwsr-x  2 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 mail
>drwxrwsr-x 11 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:38 Mailman
>drwxrwsr-x 34 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 messages
>drwxrwsr-x  6 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 pythonlib
>drwxrwsr-x  2 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 scripts
>drwxrwsr-x 35 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 templates
>drwxrwsr-x  4 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 tests
>
>Please help me understand what is going wrong.


The above is your 'prefix' directory. Whats in your 'var_prefix'
directory? In particular $var_prefix/data/ ?

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