Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 22:18:14 -0600 From: "Darren" <backdoc@crotchett.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: mailman on freebsd Message-ID: <053e01c191b2$2b183ee0$6401a8c0@crotchett.com>
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I am setting up my first list server on FreeBSD. I used the ports/packages to install Mailman. Following the setup directions on the Mailman website has raised a couple of questions. The first question is in regards to the warning in the documentation to not be root while running ./configure. I suppose that is so that the files are owned by a regular user. Since I didn't have to run configure, and since I was root when I installed the Mailman from the ports or pkgs (I don't recall which), I was concerned that I might need to change the owners of all of the files in the mailman directory from root to mailman. Should I chown -R mailman /usr/local/mailman? Apparently, other distributions put mailman in /home. At this point in the install, permissions are supposed to be checked (with /usr/local/mailman/bin/check_perms -f) as the user who installed Mailman. They checked out OK as root. But, here is where I realized that I could not su to mailman. I do have a user mailman that the ports set up for me. But, the shell is /sbin/nologin. I tried changing that to another shell and giving mailman a password. But, that still didn't help. I still get the message, "This account is currently not available". Not being able to su to mailman looks like it is going to be a problem when I get to the crontab step. Thanks in advance, Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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