On 8 May 2004, at 11:42, Michael Mansour wrote:

Hi,

I've recently performed an upgrade from 2.0.13 to 2.1.4, all list and such were migrated fine.

I run Fedora Core 1. When I try to start the service, I get the following error:

# service mailman start Site list is missing: mailman

and the mailmanctl process doesn't exist.

Going through the startup script it shows the following command is run on startup:

# /var/mailman/bin/mailmanctl -s -q start

So running that manually also produces the following error:

Site list is missing: mailman

Any ideas what this means? and how I can fix it?

Thanks.

Michael.

Starting with MM 2.1 a site-wide list, default name 'mailman', is required. This default name can be changed in mm_cfg. py; look in Defaults.py for more info if you want to do this.

This requirement is made clear in INSTALL documentation files in the Mailman 2.1.x source releases. Maybe this information did not make into the installer you are using if you are not installing from source.

mailmanctl will not start the qrunner daemons if this list does not exist; just like the error message says.

Simple solution is use bin/newlist to create a mailing list called 'mailman'.

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Michael Mansour wrote:

I run Fedora Core 1. When I try to start the service, I get the following error:

# service mailman start Site list is missing: mailman [...] Any ideas what this means? and how I can fix it?

In addition the the FAQ's pointed out by others, the FC rpm also states this in the description:

Documentation can be found in: /usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.4

When the package has finished installing, you will need to perform
some additional installation steps, these are described in:
/usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.4/INSTALL.REDHAT

INSTALL.REDHAT tells you, among other things, to create the site-wide list.

When in doubt and installing via a method other than original source, it's always good to check out any docs included with the packaging system you've used.

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