Greetings,

I'd posted several questions about 30 days

ago concerning our problem getting Mailman 2.1.2 to work on a Sun/Cobalt RaQ4 series box...

Amazingly, after weeks of pounding, I can

testify that it IS possible, it all works including the pipermail archives.

I will note there's a post in the archives

here from last Oct/Nov that had a good basis for the installation, the install went smoothly and everything apparently worked from that point. But the major situation was that all traffic was piling up in the qfiles and never being handled, which had totally baffled me.

I did have to reference several entries in

the Mailman install guide, the post in the archives left out several important steps such as the default 'mailman' list that should exist beyond the 'test' list that post contained.

The Pipermail solution for the archives

and permissions was hiding in the archives as well, but not directly referenced to the RaQ situation. Searching for Apache solutions with slight mods for the Cobalt rewrite did the trick to liven up the public/private archives.

Mailmanctl turned out to be the culprit!

While I'd followed the instructions to copy that script into the /etc/rc.d/init.d/ directory and had done all I could find to fire it up, including rebooting the server, the key turned out to be a requirement to actually issue a:

sh mailman start 

from the same directory above to actually

TURN ON the whole mess! For some reason it must be started once for the RaQ4 to actually do any processing. I've rebooted and tested since issuing that command and it's still pumping traffic just fine. Why it requires a start command regardless of reboots, restarting apache and restarting sendmail till you're blue in the face - I have no idea. But I can testify it's working now.

Thanks to those here who offered advice on

my situation and to having the archives available to find the other answers. If I ever find time in my schedule, I may try to write a complete install using the previous post as a base with what I had to do and ensure was in place in order to fire it up for good.

  David J. Duffner
  VP Operations
  http://www.nwcxpress.com

NWC Corporation - Global e-Pay Solutions POSA terminals, Merchant Accounts, E-payment solutions, Gift Cards and much more! NWCWEB.com - Your design, hosting and e- commerce solution! Featuring Miva Merchant e-commerce and Sun Cobalt RaQ platforms

  David J. Duffner
  VP Operations
  http://www.nwcxpress.com

NWC Corporation - Global e-Pay Solutions POSA terminals, Merchant Accounts, E-payment solutions, Gift Cards and much more! NWCWEB.com - Your design, hosting and e- commerce solution! Featuring Miva Merchant e-commerce and Sun Cobalt RaQ platforms