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Date:      Thu, 07 Aug 2003 12:25:18 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        "Kirk R. Wythers" <kwythers@umn.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd and mailman groups
Message-ID:  <3F327D6E.8060405@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <1060269084.4754.6.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu>
References:  <1060199428.11299.68.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu> <3F31710E.7020007@mac.com> <1060269084.4754.6.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu>

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Kirk R. Wythers wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 16:20, Chuck Swiger wrote:
[ ... ]
>>The easiest way would to be install Mailman via the port.  In particular, 
>>/usr/ports/mail/mailman/Makefile suggests:
>>
>>CONFIGURE_ARGS= --prefix=${MAILMANDIR} --with-python=${PYTHON_CMD} \
>>                 --with-username=${MM_USERNAME} \
>>                 --with-groupname=${MM_GROUPNAME} \
>>                 --with-mail-gid=${MAIL_GID} --with-cgi-gid=${CGI_GID}
>>
> 
> so would this be done like this:
> 1.make deinstall
> 2.make reinstall --with-mail-gid=mail

Not quite:

1. cd /usr/ports/mail/mailman
2. make deinstall
3. make reinstall

The port knows how to pass the "--with-mail-gid" argument as needed.  If you are 
building MailMan yourself, you'd pass the "--with-mail-gid=mailnull" argument to 
./configure.

-- 
-Chuck



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