[just replying to myself...]

On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 22:42, David Fitch wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 21:47, David wrote:
> > However if you do a simple apt-get install mailman from woody you will run
> > into a permissions problem when you try to access your new list. Somebody
> > stuffed up!
> 
> yeah seems to be to do with creating locks....

not fixed this one yet

> > I don't have the fix to hand, but it's fairly simple and I know at least
> > one person who is on this list knows how to do it ;-)
> 
> the lock dir doesn't seem to have "list" write permissions
> but increasing that doesn't seem to have helped.
> 
> And maybe I'm missing something but:
> I run "newlist" but it doesn't tell me what aliases to add to
> /etc/aliases (like the doco says it should) and nor does
> emailing newlist@<mydomain> work.  It feels like there's a
> step missing.....

ok the missing step was me reading the output from "newlist"
properly!  got that one sorted now.

Dave.

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