I wrote the following installation script trying to follow all the docs.

Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. It seems like I'm missing something pretty fundamental.

-pehr

#!/bin/sh # Script to install mailman on a clean box with RedHat Linux 5.2 # by pehr@eink.com # This doesn't work yet, please tell me what's wrong! # Send me mail and I'll fix it. # CAUTION THIS WILL MOST LIKELY NUKE AN EXISTING MAILMAN INSTALLATION # DO NOT USE THIS SCRIPT TO UPGRADE

EMAIL=pehr@eink.com PASSWD=foo #some unused user/group id ID=127

userdel mailman groupdel mailman groupadd -g $ID mailman useradd -u $ID -g mailman mailman cd /home/mailman tar xzf ~pehr/gz/mailman.tar.gz chgrp mailman /home/mailman chmod a+rx,g+ws /home/mailman

# configure and install mailman cd mailman* make clean ./configure --with-mail-gid=mail --with-cgi-gid=nobody #make make install crontab -u mailman /home/mailman/cron/crontab.in

# configure apache and restart if grep mailman /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf then echo ScriptAlias /mailman/ /home/mailman/cgi-bin/ >> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf echo Alias /pipermail/ /home/mailman/archives/public >> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf fi /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

#configure sendmail if grep mailman /etc/aliases then echo mailman: $EMAIL echo mailman-owner: mailman fi /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart

# configure site password /home/mailman/bin/mmsitepass $PASSWD

echo "Hope it worked!" echo "Now browse to " echo "http://localhost/pipermail/" echo " -pehr" lynx http://localhost/pipermail