Re: [Mailman-Users] No such list mailman after creating list -Possibly Solved?
John, That did it for me, there was a config file in /etc/httpd/conf.d. I haven't toyed much with that part of Apache in years and forgot that existed. Thanks! Regards, Josh Simoneau -Original Message- From: John Dennis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 12:47 PM To: Josh Simoneau Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] No such list mailman after creating list -Possibly Solved? On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 11:18 -0400, Josh Simoneau wrote: So, my last challenge is to figure out why Apache is looking to /var/mailman where I can't find anything in the config to tell it to look there. Maybe its somewhere else. For a workaround I just renamed the /var/mailman directory and created a symbolic link from /var/mailman to /usr/local/mailman. It works, but I still want to know how to get Apache to look to the right spot. Did you look in: /etc/httpd/conf.d? That directory has config files, typically one per web service with the name of the service. Is there a mailman.conf file in that directory? If not grep all the files there looking for one that contains mailman. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
Re: [Mailman-Users] No such list mailman after creating list - Possibly Solved?
Alrighty, thanks everyone for the help, I solved (or at least worked-around) the issue. Apparently someone some time ago installed a mailman RPM onto this server and just left it for dead without setting up postfix and all that jazz. It installed everything into /var/mailman where I am installing everything into /usr/local/mailman. For some reason my web server was looking to /var/mailman for data, even though I cannot find anything in httpd.conf that points to /var/mailman. So, while I was happily updating and tinkering with everything in /usr/local/mailman Apache was looking to the wrong place and not finding the lists or proper passwords. So, my last challenge is to figure out why Apache is looking to /var/mailman where I can't find anything in the config to tell it to look there. Maybe its somewhere else. For a workaround I just renamed the /var/mailman directory and created a symbolic link from /var/mailman to /usr/local/mailman. It works, but I still want to know how to get Apache to look to the right spot. I do have in httpd.conf: ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/ Alias /pipermail/ /usr/local/mailman/archives/public/ That's not really the job of you folks here to troubleshoot Apache issues, but if someone is feeling kind Thanks again, Josh -Original Message- From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 11:05 AM To: Josh Simoneau; mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] No such list mailman after creating list Josh Simoneau wrote: The mailman list exists. I created it as defined in the installation manual, it sent an email to the given email address, and it appears to work properly on the email exchanging side of things. The web administration side of things, however, does not work at all. It says the list does not exist. If I create a new list with the command line, again it sends out the appropriate email to the new list administrator. If I execute the 'list-lists' command (syntax could be off on that) it lists the mailman list, along with any others I have created. Any new list has the same issue, web administration fails, only with admin.py access for non-existant list: whatevernewlistname. This has to be a case of the web server not being able to access the lists/ directory or its subordinates. If bin/check_perms finds no problems, maybe its a SELinux issue. -- Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Californiabetter use your sense - B. Dylan -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
Re: [Mailman-Users] No such list mailman after creating list -Possibly Solved?
Josh Simoneau wrote: For some reason my web server was looking to /var/mailman for data, even though I cannot find anything in httpd.conf that points to /var/mailman. So, while I was happily updating and tinkering with everything in /usr/local/mailman Apache was looking to the wrong place and not finding the lists or proper passwords. So, my last challenge is to figure out why Apache is looking to /var/mailman where I can't find anything in the config to tell it to look there. Maybe its somewhere else. For a workaround I just renamed the /var/mailman directory and created a symbolic link from /var/mailman to /usr/local/mailman. It works, but I still want to know how to get Apache to look to the right spot. I do have in httpd.conf: ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/ Alias /pipermail/ /usr/local/mailman/archives/public/ That's not really the job of you folks here to troubleshoot Apache issues, but if someone is feeling kind I don't think it's an Apache issue. I think it's mm_cfg.py/Defaults.py - in particular the settings for PREFIX = EXEC_PREFIX = VAR_PREFIX = These should be properly set by ./configure from the defaults or values provided with the --prefix=dir --exec-prefix=dir --with-var-prefix=dir options (see http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node7.html). Normally, whatever configure sets these to is where things will be installed and later found, but I'm guessing that somehow the wrong mm_cfg.py/Defaults.py is being picked up somewhere. Maybe the wrappers in cgi-bin/ are wrong or there's more than one ScriptAlias for mailman in the Apache config. or maybe the wrong makefile was used by make. -- Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Californiabetter use your sense - B. Dylan -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
Re: [Mailman-Users] No such list mailman after creating list - Possibly Solved?
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 11:18 -0400, Josh Simoneau wrote: So, my last challenge is to figure out why Apache is looking to /var/mailman where I can't find anything in the config to tell it to look there. Maybe its somewhere else. For a workaround I just renamed the /var/mailman directory and created a symbolic link from /var/mailman to /usr/local/mailman. It works, but I still want to know how to get Apache to look to the right spot. Did you look in: /etc/httpd/conf.d? That directory has config files, typically one per web service with the name of the service. Is there a mailman.conf file in that directory? If not grep all the files there looking for one that contains mailman. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
