[Mailman-Users] Install question - was: Errors on mailman startup

[Malveeka Tewari]

Sorry for replying in an already running thread.
Will not happen again.

I tried creating a newlist using bin/newlist

It asked me for an email address and password which I enetered but I got an
error
Illegal list name: mailman-admin at localhost


On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:

> Malveeka Tewari wrote:
> >
> >I installed mailman on localhost using the following instructions on
> >
> http://systers.org/systers-soc/doku.php/step_by_step_system_installation_-_production
> >
> >But on starting mailman I get an error:
> >Site-list is missing: mailman-admin
> >
> >Can anyone help me here?
>
>
> Please do not hijack existing threads for new topics. Post an original
> message, not a reply.
>
> The instructions you reference above are old. They reference mailman
> 2.1.10. The current version is 2.1.12. They are also incomplete
> because they don't mention creating the site list.
>
> The error message you got says you didn't create the site list, which
> is normally named 'mailman', not 'mailman-admin', but in your case you
> have declared its name to be mailman-admin by putting
>
> MAILMAN_SITE_LIST = 'mailman-admin'
>
> in mm_cfg.py.
>
> Our installation manual is in the tarball and also at
> <http://www.list.org/mailman-install/index.html>. See section 8.
>
> --
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