On Oct 29, 2012, at 02:14 PM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: >Such an enhancement would obviously not help anyone using a currently >"older" Mailman package, but going forward, say into MM3, it might be a >good idea to make this information available in some such way. I use >courier as a MTA, and courier has a "courier-config" executable >in /usr/bin which spits out all sorts of useful build information, >including the package creator's build-time configure args.
Mailman 3 should be much more FHS friendly out of the box. Of course, one important change is that we have actual ini-file configuration and not the crazy mm_cfg.py stuff. The ini-file contains a [mailman]layout configuration variable which names a [paths.*] section from your configuration file. These sections are used to locate all the directories Mailman puts things. By default, it uses the [paths.dev] layout which puts everything under a local, relative 'var' directory. It comes with a [paths.fhs] section so switching to FHS layout (which of course distro versions of Mailman 3 should do), you would add the following to your mailman.cfg file: -----snip snip----- [mailman] layout: fhs -----snip snip----- Here are the values it uses in FHS layout: [paths.fhs] # Filesystem Hiearchy Standard 2.3 # http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html bin_dir: /sbin var_dir: /var/lib/mailman queue_dir: /var/spool/mailman log_dir: /var/log/mailman lock_dir: /var/lock/mailman etc_dir: /etc ext_dir: /etc/mailman.d pid_file: /var/run/mailman/master.pid Of course, if you wanted to e.g. put the master.pid file in /run instead of /var/run, you could do something like this: -----snip snip----- [mailman] layout: slashrun [paths.slashrun] bin_dir: /sbin var_dir: /var/lib/mailman queue_dir: /var/spool/mailman log_dir: /var/log/mailman lock_dir: /var/lock/mailman etc_dir: /etc ext_dir: /etc/mailman.d pid_file: /run/mailman/master.pid -----snip snip----- Cheers, -Barry ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
