[Mailman-Users] Starting mailman on reboot

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 at 19:24, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:

> On 2/26/19 5:56 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 at 15:23, mailman-admin <
> mailman-admin at uni-konstanz.de>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Am 26.02.19 um 08:59 schrieb Odhiambo Washington:
> >>> Server: Ubuntu 18.01
> >>>
> >>> I have followed these:
> >>> http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/node42.html
> >>>
> >>>  % update-rc.d mailman defaults
> >>>
> >>> But still, mailman doesn't start on reboot.
> >>>
> >>> Nothing in the logs suggest any reason.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Ubuntu 18.04 is a systemd based distro.
> >> Per default it is not using system V init system anymore.
> >>
> >> Check systemd-sysv-generator for getting those running.
> >>
> >
> > The man page for systemd-sysv-generator is ... well, let me not say.
>
>
>
> systemd-sysv-generator runs at boot to generate temporary systemd
> services from /etc/init.d/* scripts for backwards compatibility with
> SysV init.
>
> If you have copied the init script from misc/mailman to
> /etc/init.d/mailman, it should work with systemd. Note that the script
> is misc/mailman, not scripts/mailman as it says in the manual. (I'm
> fixing that.)
>
>
The script in misc/ is the only one named mailman though. There is none in
scripts/.
I copied that into etc/init.d/ and rebooted, but mailman did not come up
still.


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