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<pre>Well, after finally wrestling my OS X Server system into running the
very useful Mailman program, I've dumped it in favor of the Mac OS X
Public Beta, and the fun is starting all over.
I'm running into an odd error, one that most likely has a very simple
fix. I get the following:
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[rock:OpenUp/mailman_0/mailman-2.0] root# ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for --with-python... no
checking for python... (cached) /usr/local/bin/python
checking Python interpreter... /usr/local/bin/python
checking Python version... 2.0
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for true... (cached) /usr/bin/true
checking for --without-gcc... no
checking for gcc... (cached) cc
checking whether the C compiler (cc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (cc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether cc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking whether #! works in shell scripts... (cached) yes
checking for --with-var-prefix... no
checking for --with-username... mailman
checking for mailman UID... ./configure: permission denied: conftest.py [1152]
/usr/local/bin/python: can't open file 'conftest.py'
cat: conftest.out: No such file or directory
configure: error:
***** No "mailman" user found!
***** Your system must have a "mailman" user defined
***** (usually in your /etc/passwd file). Please see the INSTALL
***** file for details.
[rock:OpenUp/mailman_0/mailman-2.0] root#
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I do indeed have a "mailman" user... I'm guessing that it's a file
permission thing rather than a username problem, but God knows I'm no
expert. When I take out that section from the configure file, it
skips down to the next section, has apparent trouble opening
conftest.py, and tells me that I don't, for example, have a group
named "mailman,' which I do. Oddly, when I try to install
with-username=root, it actually works. Any other user name fails.
Many thanks for your help.</pre>
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<p><br>Sounds like an ownership problem. You have some things in
mailman owned
<br>by root. Try this as root from the mailman root directory:
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<blockquote><font color="#3333FF">cd /something/mailman</font>
<br><font color="#3333FF">chown -R mailman.mailman .</font></blockquote>
<font color="#330000">then try running you make again and see if that helps</font><font color="#330000"></font>
<p><font color="#330000">Jeffrey Thompson</font>
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