Genaliases Command Help

[Carlwill]

When installing MailMan, the guide explains that I need to run the
/usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases to "to initialize your aliases file".
I do so as instructed and get the following response:

[root@mail bin]# ./genaliases
[root@mail bin]#

As you can see I am issued no errors or anything to that nature
however nothing ever generates an aliases file unless it's somewhere I
can't find. What am I doing wrong? I don't think this matters but the
permissions are listed below:

drwxrwsr-x  13 root mailman    4096 Oct  9 12:15 mailman

[root@mail lib]# cd mailman/

[root@mail mailman]# ls -l
total 44
drwxrwsr-x  2 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 bin
drwxrwsr-x  2 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 cgi-bin
drwxrwsr-x  2 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 cron
drwxrwsr-x  2 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 icons
drwxrwsr-x  2 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 mail
drwxrwsr-x 11 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:38 Mailman
drwxrwsr-x 34 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 messages
drwxrwsr-x  6 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 pythonlib
drwxrwsr-x  2 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 scripts
drwxrwsr-x 35 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 templates
drwxrwsr-x  4 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 tests

Please help me understand what is going wrong.

Thanks!
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[Adam McGreggor-2]

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 12:49:40PM -0400, Carlos Williams wrote:
> When installing MailMan, the guide explains that I need to run the
> /usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases to "to initialize your aliases file".
> I do so as instructed and get the following response:
>
> [root@mail bin]# ./genaliases
> [root@mail bin]#

do you have any lists?

genaliases may not always be appropriate, depending on the options in
your Mailman config file;
    MTA=

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[Mark Sapiro-3]

Carlos Williams wrote:

>When installing MailMan, the guide explains that I need to run the
>/usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases to "to initialize your aliases file".
>I do so as instructed and get the following response:
>
>[root@mail bin]# ./genaliases
>[root@mail bin]#
>
>As you can see I am issued no errors or anything to that nature
>however nothing ever generates an aliases file unless it's somewhere I
>can't find. What am I doing wrong? I don't think this matters but the
>permissions are listed below:

Do you have

MTA = 'Postfix'

in mm_cfg.py

>drwxrwsr-x  13 root mailman    4096 Oct  9 12:15 mailman
>
>[root@mail lib]# cd mailman/
>
>[root@mail mailman]# ls -l
>total 44
>drwxrwsr-x  2 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 bin
>drwxrwsr-x  2 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 cgi-bin
>drwxrwsr-x  2 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 cron
>drwxrwsr-x  2 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 icons
>drwxrwsr-x  2 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 mail
>drwxrwsr-x 11 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:38 Mailman
>drwxrwsr-x 34 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 messages
>drwxrwsr-x  6 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 pythonlib
>drwxrwsr-x  2 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 scripts
>drwxrwsr-x 35 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 templates
>drwxrwsr-x  4 root mailman 4096 Oct  9 12:15 tests
>
>Please help me understand what is going wrong.

The above is your 'prefix' directory. Whats in your 'var_prefix'
directory? In particular $var_prefix/data/ ?

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