On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 18:24 +0000, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> If you haven't any useful comments to make maybe silence could be the
> best option.
Usefulness should not be determined by a single individual (who
disappointingly abandoned so quickly his New Year resolution to be
courteous) in the absence of a published criteria subjected to peer
review. Such robust comments might detrimentally deter others writing to
this wonderfully informative and helpful mailing list.
I use Centos 5.5 which is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
On
http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman21.html is:-
# Home dir for your Mailman installation -- aka Mailman's prefix
# directory.
# By default this is set to "/usr/local/mailman"
# On a Red Hat/Fedora system using the RPM use "/var/mailman"
# On Debian using the deb package use "/var/lib/mailman"
# This is normally the same as ~mailman
MM_HOME=/var/mailman
(1) The correct data for Centos, and by implication for Red Hat and
Scientific Linux (the CERN derivative of Red Hat) is currently:-
MM_HOME=/var/lib/mailman
because /var/mailman is non-existent and /var/lib/mailman exists.
(2) The above line
> # This is normally the same as ~mailman
is possibly erroneous. The command:-
echo ~mailman
produces:
/usr/lib/mailman
on Centos 5.5 yet the actual location sought, because MM_HOME is used
in:-
MM_LISTCHK = MM_HOME/lists/${lc::$local_part}/config.pck
and MM_LISTCHK appears in the router:-
mailman_router:
driver = accept
domains = u6.u226.com
require_files = MM_LISTCHK
local_part_suffix_optional
local_part_suffix = -admin : \
-bounces : -bounces+* : \
-confirm : -confirm+* : \
-join : -leave : \
-owner : -request : \
-subscribe : -unsubscribe
transport = mailman_transport
is /var/lib/mailman because sub-directory lists exists and
NOT /usr/lib/mailman where sub-directory lists does not exist.
QED Nigel ?
Perhaps someone will helpfully amend the documentation possibly
including my other minor suggestion.
Thank you.
Paul.
(A computer programmer for 43 and a bit years.)
