[Mailman-Users] building a new mailman server

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Fri Mar 28 00:57:26 CET 2014


On 03/27/2014 02:40 PM, Bruce Harrison wrote:
> 
> Anyway, proceeded with the install and got to make install, which failed with Permission denied for the mkdir commands.
> I'm running from a non-root userid who has a membership in the mailman group.  The directory /usr/local/mailman has rws privs for the mailman group (but is owned by root).  Do I need to do a sudo make install or am I missing some type of privilege setting?  


Yes, I think you may need to 'sudo make install'. Either that or chown
the /usr/local/mailman directory to the user you're running as.

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