When I run “mailman info”, it creates a “var” directory in the current directory.

You can see in the following that I have mailman.cfg in my /etc

You can also see that /etc/mailman.cfg defines locations for the various directories.

You can see that prior to running mailman info there is no “var” directory, but there is afterwards.

I’m curious to understand why it is doing this when apparently mailman is picking up the configuration file OK from /etc but ignoring its contents and then setting up a new var directory in the current directory. Any ideas welcome.

(venv2.7)ubuntu@server01:~$ ls blankontheme.zip mailman mailman.client postorius postorius_standalone temp venv2.7 (venv2.7)ubuntu@server01:~$ grep _dir /etc/mailman.cfg #var_dir: var archive_dir = /home/ubuntu/mailman/var/archives bin_dir = /home/ubuntu/venv2.7/bin data_dir = /home/ubuntu/mailman/var/data etc_dir = /etc ext_dir = /home/ubuntu/mailman/var/ext list_data_dir = /home/ubuntu/mailman/var/lists lock_dir = /home/ubuntu/mailman/var/locks log_dir = /home/ubuntu/mailman/var/logs messages_dir = /home/ubuntu/mailman/var/messages queue_dir = /home/ubuntu/mailman/var/queue template_dir = /home/ubuntu/mailman/var/templates var_dir = /home/ubuntu/mailman/var (venv2.7)ubuntu@server01:~$ ls blankontheme.zip mailman mailman.client postorius postorius_standalone temp venv2.7 (venv2.7)ubuntu@server01:~$ mailman info GNU Mailman 3.0.0b4+ (Carve Away The Stone) Python 2.7.6 (default, Mar 22 2014, 22:59:56) [GCC 4.8.2] config file: /etc/mailman.cfg db url: postgresql://mailman:password@localhost/mailman devmode: DISABLED REST root url: http://localhost:8001/3.0/ REST credentials: restadmin:restpass (venv2.7)ubuntu@server01:~$ ls blankontheme.zip mailman mailman.client postorius postorius_standalone temp var venv2.7 (venv2.7)ubuntu@server01:~$

On 4 Dec 2014, at 2:24 pm, rajeevs1992@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

Yes, that's intentional.

The var directory setting is set to current directory by default.

You can set it to a fixed directory by modifying the var_dir setting in mailman.cfg.

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From: Andrew Stuart Sent: Thursday 4 December 2014 06:47 To: mailman-developers@python.org Subject: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman keeps creating "var" directories

If I run the mailman command it keeps creating “var” directories in whatever the current directory is.

Is that intentional?

thanks

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