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

[Mark Sapiro]

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


And it's probably a good idea to look at the FAQ and list archives
before posting :)


>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....


See thae FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/O4A9> and posts linked
therefrom which may help.


>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?


/usr/share/mailman is from your configure and make install. anything
else is from Apple's pre installed Mailman. As Sebastian suggests,
there are probably conflicts.

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