[Systers-dev] build error

[sruthi devi]

Hello,

     As Jennifer pointed out,ubuntu 9.10 is using python-2.6 .So I built
python 2.5 from sources and it temporarily fixed the issue. But I am not
able to generate alias.db file.Here is the error

systers at sruthi-laptop:/usr/local/mailman$ cd /usr/local/mailman/
systers at sruthi-laptop:/usr/local/mailman$ sudo bin/genaliases
postalias: fatal: open /etc/postfix/main.cf: No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bin/genaliases", line 116, in <module>
    main()
  File "bin/genaliases", line 102, in main
    MTA.create(None, nolock=True, quiet=quiet)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 232, in create
    _update_maps()
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 53, in _update_maps
    raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr)
RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias
/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted)
systers at sruthi-laptop:/usr/local/mailman$


How shall I know my domain name is valid? Should I necessarily shift to
ubuntu-8.04?

Thank you for your support.Any suggestions would be helpful.

Regards,
Sruthi Devi






On 26 March 2010 20:59, Jennifer Redman <jenred at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Sruthi,
>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:43 AM, sruthi devi <devisruthi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On executing "sudo make install" in directory ~/mailman-2.1.10
>>
>> Can anyone help me?I am using ubuntu-9.10. Thanks in advance
>>
>
> Kanika Vats has put together a Virtual Box image to use for development.
> Instructions are here:
>
>
> http://systers.org/systers-dev/doku.php/setting_up_the_development_environment
>
> If you'd still like to build things from scratch -- I recommend the first
> thing you do is try using ubuntu 8.04lts.  Everything we do is on that
> version of Ubuntu and I suspect you may be running into some problems due to
> different versions of Python - I think 9.10 uses Python 2.6.
>
> Jen
>