I have installed smartlist and procmail for my debian system (hamm on
pentium hardware, running sendmail).
I am gradually getting apache and Email set up on the machine as it's
going to move to be hosted by a commercial ISP when I transfer my lists
and WWW services out of the university here. I think the list manager
I want to use is smartlist (majordomo seems a bit less friendly) but
I'm failing to install smartlist.
The INSTALL instructions in
/usr/doc/smartlist/INSTALL
refer to an install.sh script which doesn't
seem to exist. I assume it's actions have been migrated into the
dpkg/dselect installation. If I'm right then it's not the first time
and, bearing in mind the recent reviews of Linuxes, I'd rate it as
much the biggest problem for newbies to Debian: you end up not feeling
you trust
any documentation as it's so often clearly inconsistent with the
installation you've got.
OOPPS: flame off....
I've followed the instructions to create a user slist and then
to use createlist and I've created the new aliases and run newalias.
However, when I email the new list request (list is named test,
very original...) I get the following.
----- Forwarded message from Mail Delivery Subsystem -----
>From sendmail-daemon Thu Sep 24 15:48:29 1998
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:48:29 GMT
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <sendmail-daemon>
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: slist
Subject: Returned mail: Cannot open input: Error 0
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure)
The original message was received at Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:48:28 GMT
from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"|/var/list/.bin/flist test-request"
(expanded from: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
----- Transcript of session follows -----
flist: Can't find ".etc" in "/usr/sbin"
550 "|/var/list/.bin/flist test-request"... Cannot open input: Error 0
Reporting-MTA: dns; psyctc1.sghms.ac.uk
Arrival-Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:48:28 GMT
Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; |/var/list/.bin/flist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Action: failed
Status: 5.3.0
Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:48:29 GMT
-- Start of included mail From: slist
Return-path: <slist>
Subject: subscribe
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:48:28 +0000 (GMT)
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
subscribe test
-- End of included mail.
----- End of forwarded message from Mail Delivery Subsystem -----
It's quite right: there is no .etc in /usr/sbin. Where am I going wrong?!
What have I done wrong that would have solved this? Is there something
I need to do to make sendmail aware of procmail so that the two can use
and be used by smartlist?!
Sorry in advance if I'm missing the blindingly obvious. TIA regardless.
Chris
