[Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman on OS X El Capitan--can’t find source of erroneous call of binary at /usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman

[Dominik Hoffmann]

Thanks very much!

I looked through Defaults.py and found

PYTHON          = '/usr/bin/python'
PREFIX          = '/usr/local/mailman'
EXEC_PREFIX     = '${prefix}'
VAR_PREFIX      = '/usr/local/mailman'

This looks normal to me and is verbatim from Allan Herman's instructions, which get their configure call from Larry Stone's May 1, 2010, instructions (also on this mailing list):

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mailman --with-cgi-gid=_www --with-mail-gid=_mailman

I can't find any reference to "--exec-prefix=" in config.log.

Dominik

> On Oct 12, 2016, at 11:16 AM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
> 
> On 10/11/2016 01:46 PM, Dominik Hoffmann wrote:
>> 
>> I have followed Allan Herman's March 29, 2013, instructions for installing Mailman on OS X Mountain Lion. The difference is that my system is OS X El Capitan running Server 5.2. Nonetheless, I have not run into any contradictions. It appears that the choices for the locations of the various configuration files made when transitioning from Mac OS X Snow Leopard to Mac OS X Lion to OS X Mountain Lion have remained stable.
>> 
>> However, I am now banging my head against the wall, because my server's SMTP logs contain these lines:
>>> Oct 11 16:04:04 i----on local[56963]: fatal: execvp /usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman: No such file or directory
>> 
>> Allan installs his Mailman deployment in /usr/local/, and I have learned that in one of the more recent iterations of OS X, Apple chose to lock down /usr/share/, so that even the sudo command does not make modifications possible, which I learned, when I tried to create a simlink there. I kept getting the "Operation not permitted." error. I learned that this is due to System Integrity Protection (SIP), introduced in OS X El Capitan.
>> 
>> I am now on a quest to locate from where the call to mailman originates, so that I can edit the corresponding configuration file, replacing "/usr/share/" with "/usr/local/".
> 
> 
> It comes from PID 56963 which looks like a Postfix 'local' delivery
> agent instance. I.e., it's in your Postfix aliases.
> 
> I don't know how these aliases are generated in your setup, but assuming
> you have Mailman's Postfix integration, that path comes from the
> WRAPPER_DIR setting in Mailman/Defaults.py. That in turn is based on
> EXEC_PREFIX which is often the same as PREFIX. These things are set from
> options to configure when Mailman is configured.
> 
> Did you start your installation by running configure? If so, what is the
> configure command from config.log, is there a --prefix= option or a
> --exec-prefix= option - the defaults for these are
> --prefix=/usr/local/mailman and --exec-prefix=(the prefix value).
> 
> -- 
> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
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