well, it looks like that solved it. The previous mailman package worked without it. hmm thanks! On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Mike Kercher wrote: > You *MUST* create a list called 'mailman' Give that a shot > > Mike > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Justin Zygmont > > Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 2:59 PM > > To: Craig White > > Cc: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: mailman problem > > > > On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Craig White wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 01:09, Justin Zygmont wrote: > > > > I'm wondering if anyone knows off hand what might be wrong with > > > > mailman here, I set the UID and GID to 'mailman' in > > mm_cfg.py, but > > > > for some reason it fails with this message when I do a > > mailman restart: > > > > > > > > PID unreadable in: /var/mailman/data/master-qrunner.pid > > > > [Errno 2] No such file or directory: > > '/var/mailman/data/master-qrunner.pid' > > > > Is qrunner even running? > > > ---- > > > ls -l /var/mailman/data #does the folder exist? Permissions? > > > > > > ps -aux |grep qrunner # one way of checking if process is running > > > > > > I have no idea about mailman, data folder and pid's but my guess is > > > that the folder /var/mailman/data either doesn't exist or user with > > > uid/gid of mailman doesn't have write permissions to > > /var/mailman/data > > > directory. > > > > I ran check_perms with no problems, and /var/mailman/data > > does exist but, like you say qrunner doesn't even start. It > > also complains that the "site list is missing". maybe the > > rpm is broken, it used to work until I updated the package. > > > > > > > > -- > > Shrike-list mailing list > > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list > > > > > -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list