[Mailman-Users] RPM installation help

[J C Lawrence]

On Sat, 8 Apr 2000 16:20:53 -0700  
Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc at cu-portland.edu> wrote:

>> -----Original Message----- From: J C Lawrence
>> [mailto:claw at cp.net] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 3:01 PM To:
>> Gregory Leblanc Cc: 'Seth Vidal'; mailman-users at python.org
>> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] RPM installation help
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 13:20:19 -0700 Gregory Leblanc
>> <GLeblanc at cu-portland.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> > This assumes that mailman knows how to install itself to
>> multiple > locations, which I couldn't convince it to do.  Again,
>> if there's > a way to do this, please let me know.  Greg
>> 
>> Symlinks is the usual technique.

> I'm assuming that you mean symlinks from places like
> /usr/local/bin to the executables, correct?  

Both that (tho the executables should be placed in an sbin
directory, not bin), and symlinking off entire directories.  A
typical Debian install:

  $ pwd
  /var/lib/mailman
  $ ls -lpas
  total 6
   1 drwxrwsr-x  6 root list 1024 Feb 29 14:13 ./
   1 drwxr-xr-x 24 root root         1024 Mar 12 12:35 ../
   0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root list   24 Feb 29 14:13 Mailman -> /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/
   1 drwxrwsr-x  4 root list 1024 Feb 10 22:00 archives/
   0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root list   20 Feb 29 14:13 bin -> /usr/lib/mailman/bin/
   0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root list   24 Feb 29 14:13 cgi-bin -> /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/
   0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root list   21 Feb 29 14:13 cron -> /usr/lib/mailman/cron/
   1 drwxrwsr-x  2 root list 1024 Apr  4 12:12 data/
   0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root list   24 Feb 29 14:13 filters -> /usr/lib/mailman/filters/
   1 drwxrwsr-x  3 root list 1024 Apr  4 12:10 lists/
   1 drwxrwsr-x  2 root list 1024 Apr  9 07:42 locks/
   0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root list   17 Feb 29 14:13 logs -> ../../log/mailman/
   0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root list   21 Feb 29 14:13 mail -> /usr/lib/mailman/mail/
   0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root list   24 Feb 29 14:13 scripts -> /usr/lib/mailman/scripts/
   0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root list   12 Feb 29 14:13 templates -> /etc/mailman/

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