Dude! When installing from source, don't put the source files into your target directory. Put them in your home directory or in /usr/src/mailman. When you run the install from there, it will create the directories it needs.
Once the install is done, you need to run check_perms -f Good Luck - Jon Carnes On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 06:45, Ebrahim Hartley wrote: > Hi all > > I am new to the mailman environment. > > I started the installation as indicated in INSTALL, e.g > > in ROOT, I did the following > > Created the mailman user and group > > did a cd $prefix > chgrp mailman . > chmod a+rx,g+ws . > > In mailman I did the following > > > cd mailman-2.1.2 > ./configure > > The following message appears > > "checking permisions on /usr/local/mailman... configure error:" > "***** Installation directory /usr/local/mailman is not configured > properly!" > "Set-gid bit must be set for directory: /usr/local/mailman" > > Can anyone help. > > What is it that I am doing wrong > > > Regards > > Brain Hartley > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > > This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe or change your options at > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/jonc%40nc.rr.com ------------------------------------------------------ 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 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
