[CentOS] Getting Mailman Running

Sat Jun 25 23:05:43 UTC 2005
Timothy Sandel <timothy at jupiter.stcl.edu>

On Saturday 25 June 2005 03:41 pm, John Hinton wrote:
> On a CentOS 4 box, I'm trying to get Mailman running. I found the apache
> conf file in /etc/httpd/conf.d and set the servername in that. When I
> try to go there, I get a 500 internal server error.. when I try to start
> Mailman, I get
>
> Starting mailman: Site list is missing: mailman
>

Yeah, you have to create the mailman list before creating any other list.  
Look at the INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc/mailman...  You have to edit the 
mm_cfg.py also and at least change the DEFAULT_URL_HOST and 
DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST to your hostname.domain.

> I've never run Mailman before.. looked in the
> /etc/mailman/sitelist.cfg.. don't see anything in there that needs to be
> set.
>
> man mailman shows no entries.....
>
> I installed it via rpm at server install time. I am running sendmail.
> python is installed... I can't seem to find much to help.
>
> Thanks,
> John Hinton
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