Mark has been helping me with this off-line but I thought I would send this to
the list to see if there are others who are aware of the solution. I have been
using the following on a clean install of Mac Server 10.5.8 and upgrading
Mailman 2.1.9 to 2.1.12:
./configure --prefix=/usr/share/mailman --with-cgi-gid=_www
--with-mail-gid=mail --with-mailhost=domain.com --with-urlhost=domain.com
--with-var-prefix=/var/mailman --with-groupname=_mailman
and get the following error:
***** Installation directory /var/mailman is not configured properly!
***** Directory must be owned by group _mailman: /var/mailman
/var/mailman is has the settings root:wheel while the files inside are
root:_mailman.
Do I need to change the group of the /var/mailman directory for the install? I
know that change is probably not significant, but I an not sure enough of my
knowledge to know.
Once I get this right, I plan on upgrading a 10.6.2 production server running
2.1.12rc1 to 2.1.12.
Thanks!
Paul
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Paul Kleeberg
p...@fpen.org
On Dec 16, 2009, at 3:53 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Paul Kleeberg wrote:
>
>> You are correct. /var points to /private/var but /private/var/mailman
>> is owned by root:wheel. Should I chgrp to _mailman which is the group
>> of all the files inside or use
>>
>> --with-groupname=wheel
>
>
> As long as the subordinate directories are all group _mailman and
> SETGID, the group of var-prefix itself doesn't matter.
>
> And you should configure with --with-groupname=_mailman to match the
> group of the existing install.
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