Induction Services wrote: > Hello everyone, I've searched the archives for a solution but came up > against a wall. > > PCLinuxOS has Mailman listed in its repository, but on installation it > gives the error about en-US. The archives here suggest that the > solution is to config and make from scratch, as apparently wherever the > binaries came from there is an issue with an errant entry in one of the > files. > > OK, so I went to the manual, and hit a wall trying to create the user. > The instructions give exact characters to type in to useradd. > Unfortunately, on opening a console, switching to su, and entering the > command, I get, "cannot create directory /no/home". I tried reading the > man pages on useradd, and could find no explanation on why that is. > > Sorry to be so clueless. Thanks in advance for any help you can give > me. I very badly want to get away from running my little list off a > Windows box. I'm willing to put up with considerable pain to do it. > (And I'd prefer not to go distro-hopping again if I can avoid it, unless > there is a really good reason why I shouldn't use PCLinuxOS.) > > Thanks, > > --John-- >
An error like that would be a good reason for me... But anyway, it'd help if you listed the URL of the instructions you are using, or at least the command you were typing... -- Francesco Peeters Laptop: IBM T43 with Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, Workstation Server: P4i65G, 2.4GHz with Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, Server Edition Postfix, Dovecot, Mailman, Apache2, Squirrelmail ------------------------------------------------------ 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
