Re: [Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman Fails

2009-08-19 Thread Mark Sapiro
Rich Shepard wrote: > > That's amazing! The installation instructions need to be changed to >reflect this. What the step-by-step instructions should read is: > > mkdir /usr/local/mailman > mkdir -p /usr/local/src/mailman > > untar the downloaded tarball in the latter directory >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman Fails

2009-08-18 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Rich Shepard writes: >Final question on installation: can I now delete /usr/local/src/? Yes, you can. I usually don't, as source trees often contain random bits of documentation and information that don't get copied to the install tree. Backup to a CD before removing would be a good compro

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman Fails

2009-08-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Move that whole directory and all its contents to /usr/local/src/mailman. AIUI, Mailman is not designed to be run from the source directory, and by default it installs into /usr/local/mailman. So you're trying to overwrite the source with itself,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman Fails

2009-08-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Move that whole directory and all its contents to /usr/local/src/mailman. AIUI, Mailman is not designed to be run from the source directory, and by default it installs into /usr/local/mailman. So you're trying to overwrite the source with itself,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman Fails

2009-08-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: No way to ninstall it from you OS package manager? Unfortunately, no. I looked on the SlackBuilds.org Web site but they do not have a script for Mailman. Rich -- Mailman-Users mailing lis

[Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman Fails

2009-08-18 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Rich Shepard writes: >I want to install Mailman here to replace majordomo for a few mail lists. > My system includes postfix-2.5.2 and httpd-2.2.12, as well as the latest > Mailman version downloaded at the end of last week. > >With the source in /usr/local/mailman Move that whole di

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman Fails

2009-08-18 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
08/18/2009 02:34 AM, Rich Shepard: With the source in /usr/local/mailman I ran './configure No way to ninstall it from you OS package manager? -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche & Developpement +261 34

[Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman Fails

2009-08-18 Thread Rich Shepard
I want to install Mailman here to replace majordomo for a few mail lists. My system includes postfix-2.5.2 and httpd-2.2.12, as well as the latest Mailman version downloaded at the end of last week. With the source in /usr/local/mailman I ran './configure --with-mail-gid=postdrop --with-cgi-g