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Where did you get this config from? Mailman supports INI-style config only.

Actually I copied the directory specifications from the output of mailman info -v I can see now that isn’t a good idea as the format is not the same. Don’t know why I assumed it would be.

Also I can see now the second part of my issue was that even after setting the directories correctly, I also has to specify which section of mailman.cfg should be used to define the directories.

It’s working now thanks.

Andrew

On 6 Dec 2014, at 6:31 pm, Abhilash Raj <raj.abhilash1@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Andrew,

On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Andrew Stuart <andrew.stuart@supercoders.com.au> wrote: When I run “mailman info”, it creates a “var” directory in the current directory.

Yes this is the default behavior when you don't specify the paths explicitly in your mailman.cfg

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

Where did you get this config from? Mailman supports INI-style config only. My bet is that mailman is able to find your config file but is not able to parse it. What actually happens is that mailman has predefined paths for different scenarios which can be configured with layout variable in [mailman] section inside your mailman.cfg.

The default is dev layout which creates the var directory in the current directory.

You can either change the default var_dir in dev layout, below is a sample config for that:

[paths.dev]
var_dir : <dir_of_your_choice>

or you can use some other paths defined in src/mailman/config/mailman.cfg under [paths.local], [paths.master], [paths.fhs] and change the default layout in your mailman.cfg like this:

[mailman]
layout: local

Also my guess is that you can create your own path structure inside your mailman.cfg and use that layout with mailman. How to create that can be seen in src/mailman/config/mailman.cfg.

thanks, Abhilash Raj