[Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman on OS X?

[Bill Whitacre]

It WORKS!  I'm ELATED!

I'm not sure what exactly I did, except meticulously go through 
Kathleen's instructions ONE MORE TIME!

One hint:  if you get as far as successfully creating the 'test' list 
but can't connect to the web portion try two things:

1) make sure you have " " around the your ScriptAlias statements in 
httpd.conf:

Kathleen has:  ScriptAlias /mailman/ /Applications/mailman/cgi-bin/
Should be   :  ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/Applications/mailman/cgi-bin/"

2) make sure you stop/start Apache in the Sharing System Pref -- so 
simple, yet so deadly!

I want to thank everyone one both the web-development and mailmanusers 
lists for all your help and Kathleen for some really great instructions!

Now, is there a way to SEARCH on mailman archives?  I don't see it as 
an option in pipermail ... I'll bet there's a FAQ about this though so 
I'm going to Google it.

Enjoy!

bw

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On Friday, January 3, 2003, at 05:37 AM, Bill Whitacre wrote:

> Is anyone here using Mailman on OS X?  I've followed the instructions 
> put together by Kathleen Webb at 
> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg12599.html> 
> but keep getting this when I try to create a 'test' list:
>
>> [ibb-80:~] mailman% /Applications/mailman/bin/newlist
>> Enter the name of the list: test
>> Enter the email of the person running the list: bw at his.com
>> Initial test password:
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/Applications/mailman/bin/newlist", line 220, in ?
>>     main()
>>   File "/Applications/mailman/bin/newlist", line 169, in main
>>     mlist.Create(listname, owner_mail, pw)
>>   File "/Applications/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 782, in 
>> Create
>>     Utils.MakeDirTree(os.path.join(mm_cfg.LIST_DATA_DIR, name))
>>   File "/Applications/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 265, in 
>> MakeDirTree
>>     os.mkdir(made_part, perms)
>> OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
>> '/Applications/mailman/lists/test'
>> [ibb-80:~] mailman%
>
> I could sure use some hints on what might be wrong.
>
> Thanks.
>
> bw
>
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> bw at his.com
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Bill Whitacre
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