[Mailman-Users] Compile on Mac Leopard - config settings?

[Matthias Schmidt]

Hello All,

I just subscribed after fiddeling around for a day with mailman on
Leopard (Mac OS 10.5.6 Server on a G4 PPC dual).

After looking a bit on mailman, I just decided to download the last
version and try to install it.
That looked actually good, but the startup daemon plist doesn't like the
new mailman meal I just cooked.

I was running configure like this:
sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr/share/mailman --with-username=_mailman --
with-groupname=_mailman --with-mail-gid=_mailman --with-cgi-gid=_www --
with-cgi-ext=.cgi

and with with-mail-gid=_postfix

in both cases I get these errors:

Apr  7 12:03:35 mymac org.list.mailmanctl[31389]:   File "/usr/share/
mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 548, in <module>
Apr  7 12:03:35 mymac org.list.mailmanctl[31389]:     main()
Apr  7 12:03:35 mymac org.list.mailmanctl[31389]:   File "/usr/share/
mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 430, in main
Apr  7 12:03:35 mymac org.list.mailmanctl[31389]:     kids =
start_all_runners()
Apr  7 12:03:35 mymac org.list.mailmanctl[31389]:   File "/usr/share/
mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 268, in start_all_runners
Apr  7 12:03:35 mymac org.list.mailmanctl[31389]:     pid =
start_runner(qrname, slice, count)
Apr  7 12:03:35 mymac org.list.mailmanctl[31389]:   File "/usr/share/
mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 246, in start_runner
Apr  7 12:03:35 mymac org.list.mailmanctl[31389]:     pid = os.fork()
Apr  7 12:03:35 mymac org.list.mailmanctl[31389]: OSError: [Errno 35]
Resource temporarily unavailable
Apr  7 12:03:35 mymac org.list.mailmanctl[31389]: Starting Mailman's
master qrunner.
Apr  7 12:03:35 mymac com.apple.launchd[1] (org.list.mailmanctl):
Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds
Apr  7 12:03:44 mymac org.list.mailmanctl[31394]: Starting Mailman's
master qrunner.
Apr  7 12:03:44 mymac com.apple.launchd[1] (org.list.mailmanctl[31394]):
Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 31395 PPID 1 Python
Apr  7 12:03:44 mymac com.apple.launchd[1] (org.list.mailmanctl):
Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

so obviously I'm missing something....

also what I'm a bit confused, I find 2 data folders:
one in the mailman folder: /usr/share/mailman
and another one in the var folder: /var/mailman

what's the difference?


thanks and all the best,
Matthias