[Mailman-Users] PCLinuxOS Newbie

[Francesco Peeters]

Induction Services wrote:
> Hello everyone, I've searched the archives for a solution but came up 
> against a wall.
>
> PCLinuxOS has Mailman listed in its repository, but on installation it 
> gives the error about en-US.  The archives here suggest that the 
> solution is to config and make from scratch, as apparently wherever the 
> binaries came from there is an issue with an errant entry in one of the 
> files.
>
> OK, so I went to the manual, and hit a wall trying to create the user.  
> The instructions give exact characters to type in to useradd.  
> Unfortunately, on opening a console, switching to su, and entering the 
> command, I get, "cannot create directory /no/home".  I tried reading the 
> man pages on useradd, and could find no explanation on why that is.
>
> Sorry to be so clueless.  Thanks in advance for any help you can give 
> me.  I very badly want to get away from running my little list off a 
> Windows box.  I'm willing to put up with considerable pain to do it.  
> (And I'd prefer not to go distro-hopping again if I can avoid it, unless 
> there is a really good reason why I shouldn't use PCLinuxOS.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> --John--
>   

An error like that would be a good reason for me... But anyway, it'd
help if you listed the URL of the instructions you are using, or at
least the command you were typing...
-- 
Francesco Peeters
Laptop: IBM T43 with Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, Workstation
Server: P4i65G, 2.4GHz with Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, Server Edition
   Postfix, Dovecot, Mailman, Apache2, Squirrelmail