On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 06:35:27AM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello folks: > > I'm coaching a friend on installing MM on a BSD server. > I use and administer a Debian box myself here at the office. > While I administer (in the sense of creating lists and > assigning moderators) an installation of MM on someone else's > Debian machine that I do not administer, I have never actually > installed it myself. I know nothing of BSD, except that being > in jail seems to keep me from exploring configuration files. > My friend did add me to the wheel group which helped some. > > The config.log reports: > ***** Installation directory /usr/local/mailman is not configured > properly! > ***** Set-gid bit must be set for directory: /usr/local/mailman > > bash-2.05$ pwd > /usr/local/mailman > bash-2.05$ ls -al > total 4 > drwxrwxr-x 2 root mailman 512 Aug 12 05:38 . > drwxr-xr-x 21 root wheel 512 Aug 12 03:28 .. > bash-2.05$ > > Although I see no indication of it here, we did run a chmod 4755 > on this directory. Tried the chmod g+s . at a prompt as well. > > Still we get this error. Is there any way to get ls to show > permissions as numbers, instead of in rwx format? > > What might folks suggest to get us moving again? > > All help is appreciated. > -- Hugh
(01:40:39 </usr/local/mailman>) $ uname -a; pwd; ls -la FreeBSD just.puresimplicity.net 4.9-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p4 #1: Wed May 26 11:52:58 CDT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PURE i386 /usr/local/mailman total 40 drwxrwsr-x 20 mailman mailman 512 Jun 23 14:58 . drwxr-xr-x 17 root wheel 512 Feb 12 11:37 .. That's how the FreeBSD port sets things up by default and it's been working great for me. The pkg_install script sets %%USER%% and %%GROUP%% based on some command-line parameters, then does this: /usr/sbin/chown -R "%%USER%%:%%GROUP%%" "%%MAILMANDIR%%" || exit 1 /bin/chmod g+s "%%MAILMANDIR%%" || exit 1 I'm not running Mailman in a jail, so YMMV. Good luck, Josh -- Josh Tolbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/ If your sysadmin's not being fascist, you're paying him too much. --Sam Greenfield ------------------------------------------------------ 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/