[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] 2 Quickies

	John Viega
	Jun 4, 1998 at 3:15 pm

On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 11:12:34AM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

"JV" == John Viega <viega at list.org> writes:

JV> Mailman was installed w/ group user instead of group mailman.

Do you mean that $prefix wasn't chgrp'd mailman and chmod'd g+s?

Yeah, I think that it may have been a case of skimming through the
install docs, which I'm sure we've all done before!

John

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Barry A. Warsaw: JV> Mailman was installed w/ group user instead of group mailman. Do you mean that $prefix wasn't chgrp'd mailman and chmod'd g+s? I'd really like to know if those instructions in the INSTALL are incorrect or not. If they just overlooked, then I can write a test to guarantee that's set up correctly. JV> The problem here was that /home/mailman needed to be "chmod JV> a+rx"'d. That one should be mentioned in the install JV> document! Okay, here's what the INSTALL doc will say about setting up

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Barry A. Warsaw: JV> Yeah, I think that it may have been a case of skimming through JV> the install docs, which I'm sure we've all done before! Yeah, I've been guilty too! Well, I'll add an explicit check (someplace). Much better for configure or make install to barf and point you at the documentation, then to just let people screw themselves. ;-) -Barry

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