Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 51324
nice changes from mandrake rpm
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:00 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) Description of problem: hi nalin, I have to install mailman from a mandrake rpm to get it to work like a charm with postfix... some nice things from mandrake rpm: - it doesn't add a mailman user, it just uses the "mail" user (very nice for postfix) - it adds the file /etc/httpd/conf/mailman.conf so you just "Include conf/mailman.conf" in httpd.conf also, it install on /var/lib (not in /var), but I guess this point is discussable (but redhat install major subsystems in /var/lib, ldap, pgsql, dhcp ...) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install mailman rpm 2. 3. Additional info:
Using a separate user is historic, and generally preferred for limiting privileges. The location of the files is historic, and I've found that moving them causes large problems for upgrading. Those probably aren't going to change. Storing the httpd configuration specific to mailman in a file and including it in httpd.conf is a good change, though, so it'll be made for 2.0.9-1. Thanks!