Mailman port RH7.3/2.0.13 to FC4/2.1.5/Exim4

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> I'm trying to port my existing mailman setup to my new server.  I've made note 
> of the change of filesystem layout and followed the instructions for 
> connecting to Exim4. I've configured Apache and the web interface to 
> mailman's working fine.
> 
> However, I've got two possibly related problems.
> 
> 1) starting the new service fails as below:
> 
> [root at stan1 ~]# service mailman start
> Starting mailman: Site list is missing: mailman
>                                                            [FAILED]
> [root at stan1 ~]#
> 
> In /var/log/mailman/error it shows:
> 
> [root at stan1 ~]# tail -f /var/log/mailman/error
> Dec 12 22:42:15 2005 mailmanctl(5556): Site list is missing: mailman
> Dec 12 22:42:15 2005 (5556) Site list is missing: mailman

Yes, I went through this during one of my upgrades.  I no longer 
remember if it was from RH9 to FC2 or from FC2 to FC3.  But, if you 
google the "Site list is missing" error, you should find a recipe for 
creating the "site" list which is now required by mailman for it to work 
correctly.  Is your new server essentially an "upgrade" for mailman?

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