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

[Charles Marcus]

I'm trying to be patient, but NO ONE has a clue or idea where I might 
look to solve this?

I've asked here because I'm getting deafening silence on the Gentoo 
forums too...

:(

Charles Marcus, on 1/6/2008 1:15 PM, said the following:
> 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