[Mailman-Users] Mailman won't 'start' - but is working?

[Charles Marcus]

Anyone? This is actually now a little worse - I updated the kernel (from 
2.6.17 to 2.6.23), and mailman still won't start (gives me the [ !! ] 
error when I issue the /etc/init.d/mailman start command anad at boot 
time) - but now, the qrunner obviously isn't starting either, because 
the lists weren't responding until I issued a manual (as root) 
"/usr/lib64/mailmanctl -s start", after which all pending messages are 
delivered.

I really need a little help here... could this be some kind of 
permissions or path problem? The location of the /bin dorectory was 
changed in this package update... where would I check the path of the 
'bin' directory? Although, I did try to change the init script path to 
the full /usr/lib64/mailman/bin/mailmanctl path...

check_perms shows no problems...

Init script is shown below... this is on a Gentoo box, and I've asked on 
their forums, but thought I'd ask here too...

Charles Marcus, on 12/29/2007 12:16 PM, said the following:
> Charles Marcus, on 12/29/2007 11:34 AM, said the following:
>> If I try to 'start' mailman, it won't start - I get the (!!) error. If I 
>> try to stop it, it says it isn't started.
>>
>> What am I missing?

> Hmmm... apparently the qrunner is running - if I manually issue the 
> mailmanct stop or -s start commands, it appears to work...
> 
> I did verify these are correct in the startup script (see below) - but I 
> also notice two things: it is dated from 2004, and it is issuing the 
> command as 'su - mailman', but I am issuing the commands directly as 
> root - so maybe this script didn't get updated properly?
> 
> #!/sbin/runscript
> # Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation
> # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
> # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-mail/mailman/files/mailman.rc,v 
> 1.5 2004/07/14 23:50:52 agriffis Exp $
> 
> depend() {
>          need net
>          use logger
> }
> 
> start() {
>          ebegin "Starting mailman"
>          su - mailman -c 'bin/mailmanctl -s start' >/dev/null 2>&1
>          eend $?
> }
> 
> stop() {
>          ebegin "Stopping mailman"
>          su - mailman -c 'bin/mailmanctl stop' >/dev/null 2>&1
>          eend $?
> }
> 
> svc_restart() {
>          ebegin "Restarting mailman"
>          su - mailman -c 'bin/mailmanctl restart' >/dev/null 2>&1
>          eend $?
> }
> 
> Tia for any pointers and/or whacks with a clue-stick...

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Best regards,

Charles