[Mailman-Users] PCLinuxOS Newbie

[Mark Sapiro]

Induction Services wrote:
>
>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.


If I recall, some broken distros include(d)

DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE = 'en-US'

in Defaults.py

All you need to do to fix this is put

DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE = 'en'

in mm_cfg.py.


>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.  


Actually, it doesn't. At least if you are reading
<http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node4.html>, it says

  useradd -c''GNU Mailman'' -s /no/shell -d /no/home -g mailman mailman

and the '' are intended to mean " so the "exact" command should be

  useradd -c"GNU Mailman" -s /no/shell -d /no/home -g mailman mailman

But this assumes that useradd won't validate the entries for shell (-s)
and home directory (-d). Personally, I would use


"-s /sbin/nologin" and "-d /usr/local/mailman" as the shell and home
directory, assuming you are going to install in the default
/usr/local/mailman directory.

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