Ron Jarrell wrote:
At 10:35 AM 11/4/00 -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> "mt" == mike tran mtran@bmedesign.com writes:
mt> After I did ./configure --with-cgi-gid=nobody mt> --with-mail-gid=mailman and make install. Then I ran mt> check_perms. It keep telling me that it cannot find the mt> module "paths" in line 19 of check_perms. Any suggestions is mt> appricated. I am using RH 6.2 and the latest Apache with mt> python 1.5.2
Look in /home/mailman/bin. If there's no paths.py file in there, your installation failed somehow.
Actually, this probably is a doc problem. I've dealt with this several times on the users list, and in all but one case (where their python was hosed) it was people not clearly following the directions. They're supposed to install, then run check_perms out of ~mailman/bin. Where there's a paths.py(c).
However, what confuses a lot of people who only skim, is that in ${srcdir}/mailman/bin there's a check_perms. (The distribution copy). Which, of course, doesn't have a paths.py installed yet, and thus, doesn't work, but looks like it ought to, particularly to a complete newcomer who doesn't understand how things go together. (Heck, it took *me* a couple of days to figure out whatinhell they were doing wrong.)
There probably needs to be a mention in the install file to *not* run check_perms until *after* you install, and to run it from the *installed* base. Or rename the install copy to check_perms.dist, and install it as check_perms...
It's hard to imagine how to make this more clear, though; it *is* step 3, which is numbered, and after the "make install" step, and it *does* say
- cd to $prefix
- Run bin/check_permsI mean, the next thing is to add things around that point saying "no, really, we really mean exactly what we say here, and not what you think you're reading, so read this carefully, please.." but you'd think that would be obvious from the INSTALL file being the one concise thing you have to read and follow to install Mailman...