system: redhat 7.1 with all available updates for packages that I have installed.
versions of related packages: mailman-2.0.11 Python 1.5.2 sendmail 8.11.6-2.7.1 apache 1.3.22-1.7.1 so, I've doubled checked all the steps in the INSTALL file and the related README files. When I run cd to /home/mailman and run bin/newlist, it hangs after I enter the password at the "Initial $listname password:" prompt. I've given it as long as 15 minutes, and it still just sits there. I'd expect it to prompt me to confrim the password at the point, but alas, nothing. I've tried running newlist as both root and mailman (both su'd to those accounts and having logged in directly with those accounts via ssh) here's the command exactly as I'm running it and the first few prompts up to the time it hangs: [root@rattletrap mailman]# bin/newlist -o nloutput Enter the name of the list: test Enter the email of the person running the list: steven_at_shults.org Initial test password: and that's where it hangs Here's what I find in /var/log/messages while waiting for a response: May 27 18:12:55 rattletrap sshd(pam_unix)[16170]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) and here's what I get after giving up on newlist and hitting ^c (ctrl-c): Traceback (innermost last): File "bin/newlist", line 220, in ? main() File "bin/newlist", line 169, in main mlist.Create(listname, owner_mail, pw) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 786, in Create self.__lock.lock() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 286, in lock self.__sleep() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 424, in __sleep time.sleep(interval) KeyboardInterrupt [root@rattletrap mailman]# any ideas folks? tia, ~steven ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py