Matthias Schmidt wrote: > >I just subscribed after fiddeling around for a day with mailman on >Leopard (Mac OS 10.5.6 Server on a G4 PPC dual).
And it's probably a good idea to look at the FAQ and list archives before posting :) >After looking a bit on mailman, I just decided to download the last >version and try to install it. >That looked actually good, but the startup daemon plist doesn't like the >new mailman meal I just cooked. > >I was running configure like this: >sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr/share/mailman --with-username=_mailman -- >with-groupname=_mailman --with-mail-gid=_mailman --with-cgi-gid=_www -- >with-cgi-ext=.cgi > >and with with-mail-gid=_postfix > >in both cases I get these errors: > >Apr 7 12:03:35 mymac org.list.mailmanctl[31389]: File "/usr/share/ >mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 548, in <module> >Apr 7 12:03:35 mymac org.list.mailmanctl[31389]: main() >Apr 7 12:03:35 mymac org.list.mailmanctl[31389]: File "/usr/share/ >mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 430, in main >Apr 7 12:03:35 mymac org.list.mailmanctl[31389]: kids = >start_all_runners() >Apr 7 12:03:35 mymac org.list.mailmanctl[31389]: File "/usr/share/ >mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 268, in start_all_runners >Apr 7 12:03:35 mymac org.list.mailmanctl[31389]: pid = >start_runner(qrname, slice, count) >Apr 7 12:03:35 mymac org.list.mailmanctl[31389]: File "/usr/share/ >mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 246, in start_runner >Apr 7 12:03:35 mymac org.list.mailmanctl[31389]: pid = os.fork() >Apr 7 12:03:35 mymac org.list.mailmanctl[31389]: OSError: [Errno 35] >Resource temporarily unavailable >Apr 7 12:03:35 mymac org.list.mailmanctl[31389]: Starting Mailman's >master qrunner. >Apr 7 12:03:35 mymac com.apple.launchd[1] (org.list.mailmanctl): >Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds >Apr 7 12:03:44 mymac org.list.mailmanctl[31394]: Starting Mailman's >master qrunner. >Apr 7 12:03:44 mymac com.apple.launchd[1] (org.list.mailmanctl[31394]): >Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 31395 PPID 1 Python >Apr 7 12:03:44 mymac com.apple.launchd[1] (org.list.mailmanctl): >Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds > >so obviously I'm missing something.... See thae FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/O4A9> and posts linked therefrom which may help. >also what I'm a bit confused, I find 2 data folders: >one in the mailman folder: /usr/share/mailman >and another one in the var folder: /var/mailman > >what's the difference? /usr/share/mailman is from your configure and make install. anything else is from Apple's pre installed Mailman. As Sebastian suggests, there are probably conflicts. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9