After emerging mailman 2.1.1, I attempted to start the mailman queue runner, and it would not start up. Attempting to start it manually by doing a 'su - mailman' then 'bin/mailmanctl start' results in this: mailman@uotani-arisa mailman $ bin/mailmanctl start Site list is missing: mailman With this error, /etc/init.d/mailman fails. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge net-mail/mailman 2.1.1 2. Perform steps indicated at end of emerge. 3. Attempt to start qrunner by /etc/init.d/mailman start Actual Results: /etc/init.d/mailman script fails to start, manual start by - bin/mailmanctl start results in the error message: Site list is missing: mailman Expected Results: Mailman's qrunner should have started up properly, to provide maillist mail transfer. Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.2-r0) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /var/bind /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" USE="x86 3dnow apm avi encode gif jpeg libg++ mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime sdl spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline java tcpd libwww perl python imlib oggvorbis motif opengl X gtk mmx sse ssl aalib alsa acpi crypt fbcon imap mysql oss pam svga tcltk usb -gnome -qt -qtmt -kde -arts -cups -esd -gpm" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
/usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.1/README.LINUX.gz /usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.1/README.gentoo.gz /usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.1/README.(EXIM|NETSCAPE|POSTFIX|QMAIL|SENDMAIL) /usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.1/README.gz If you follow the instructions in those documents... especially the part about creating 'CREATE YOUR FIRST LIST' ... you should get it working.
Unfortunately, that is not the case. I did make my first list, as per instructions, and still I received that message. I believe I have 'solved' my own problem... according to the INSTALL file from the mailman-2.1.1 tarball, it states you must create a 'mailman' site list, and that is most likely what I need to do to fix this problem... however, this is still a bug because: The mailman-2.1.1 ebuild states that you can find the INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.1/, but (at least when I emerge it, ymmv) there is no INSTALL file, gzipped or no, in that directory post-emerge. since the instructions needed to fix this problem were in that file, and the post-install instructions given by the ebuild do not mention this, I believe the ebuild still needs to be fixed.
Fixed
