Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 99426
rpm -qi mailman instructions are plain wrong
Last modified: 2014-06-18 04:21:25 EDT
.. and misleading. Hi, Chuck. rpm -qi mailman, on a fresh install of RHL 9 -or- the present Raw Hide offering state: 1. When the package has finished installing, you will need to: * Run /var/mailman/bin/mmsitepass to set the mailman administrator password. * Edit /var/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py to customize mailman's configuration for your site. * Modify the sendmail configuration to ensure that it is running and accepting connections from the outside world (to ensure that it runs, set "DAEMON=yes" in /etc/sysconfig/sendmail, ensuring that it accepts connections from the outside world may require modifying /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and regenerating sendmail.cf), and * Add these lines: ScriptAlias /mailman/ /var/mailman/cgi-bin/ Alias /pipermail/ /var/mailman/archives/public/ <Directory /var/mailman/archives> Options +FollowSymlinks </Directory> to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf to configure your Web server. ----------------------- The last section is simply wrong with the 'mailman.conf' file in /etc/http/conf.d/ 2. Missing item: Additionally, there is a new mailman upstream requirement to establist a minimum list called 'mailman' for logfile management purposes and so forth. Failure to do so leads to a cryptic error when running: service mailman stop ; service mailman start.
corrent title Summary; sorry, Jim.
2. also, once done, you need: The mailing list `mailman' has been created via the through-the-web interface. In order to complete the activation of this mailing list, the proper /etc/aliases (or equivalent) file must be updated. The program `newaliases' may also have to be run. Here are the entries for the /etc/aliases file: mailman: "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman" mailman-admin: "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman admin mailman" mailman-bounces: "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman bounces mailman" mailman-confirm: "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman confirm mailman" mailman-join: "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman join mailman" mailman-leave: "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman leave mailman" mailman-owner: "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman owner mailman" mailman-request: "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman request mailman" mailman-subscribe: "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe mailman" mailman-unsubscribe: "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe mailman" _______________________________________________
Since the current mailman rpm any requires the setup of a mailman list, we might want to remove any addition of "mailman" and "mailman-owner" into the alias file and keep that as part of the setup process and the Red Hat docu file in /usr/share/doc/. This will also simplify the current post script. greetings, Florian La Roche
This is a specspo issue, the spec file has the correct description which specspo ignores. Assigning this to the specspo maintainer as quite a few of us are baffled as to how to get updates into specspo as per the recent discusson on os-devel-list. We need to do one of the following: 1) document a process for specspo 2) remove specspo from distributions 3) a compose time snag the description from all the rpm's and update specspo with that, at least the english documentation will be correct.
Thanks Dennis. I'd requested that specspo be assigned to Bernd Groh a few months ago now, as I am not in a position to maintain OS packages. Bernd is also flooded, so my recommendation is option 2). Specspo is a good idea, but without an automated process to maintain the varying versions we need to maintain for each release, it is not possible to maintain, and translate. I would recommend we target re-including it in RHEL5, after Bernd has had time to develop an automated system.
more than six months old - long since overtaken by events - closing; please reopen if appropriate