When starting up the mailman service, I get the following error:
mazar:/usr/lib/mailman # service mailman start
Starting mailman (Warning: the Apache2 webinterface for Mailman has not
been activated!)
done
mazar:/usr/lib/mailman # service mailman start
Starting mailman (Warning: the Apache2 webinterface for Mailman has not
been activated!)
done
This appears to be specific to your Mailman package, whatever that is.
The Mailman project distribution issues no such message, but all it
seems to be saying is your web server isn't running when you start
Mailman. This should not be a problem for Mailman except that you
can't use the web interface until you start the web server.
when something breaks, but in trying to fix it, you generally learn a lot.
What I found is that an RPM package I had installed dropped the apache
server flag "MAILMAN" I still don' t know why either, but it is working
again.
bin/config_list -i data/sitelist.cfg allstaff
The data/sitelist.cfg list configuration is intended to be used onlyfor the site ('mailman') list. For any other list, you ar probably
better off with the normal defaults.
saved my mailman files and decided to do a full reinstall.
I receive the following error
File "bin/config_list", line 362, in <module>
main()
File "bin/config_list", line 357, in main
do_input(listname, infile, checkonly, verbose)
File "bin/config_list", line 263, in do_input
execfile(infile, globals)
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'data/sitelist.cfg'
Any suggestions on what could be the problem and how to debug this? I have
dug around a fair bit this morning and don't have a clue as to what the
problem is or why it even broke in the first place.
File "bin/config_list", line 362, in <module>
main()
File "bin/config_list", line 357, in main
do_input(listname, infile, checkonly, verbose)
File "bin/config_list", line 263, in do_input
execfile(infile, globals)
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'data/sitelist.cfg'
Any suggestions on what could be the problem and how to debug this? I have
dug around a fair bit this morning and don't have a clue as to what the
problem is or why it even broke in the first place.
This error occurs because there is no data/sitelist.cfg file. Either it
has been removed or was never included in your package or possibly
mailman's data/ directory is not in the same parent directory
(/usr/lib/mailman ?) as Mailman's bin/ directory.
As far as I can tell from what you've provided, Mailman is not broken.
The problems are only that Apache wasn't running when you started
Mailman, and a file that you don't need anyway may be missing.
again though, even with this error, I have been able to get things up and
running again.
Thanks a lot for your help!
Donovan
