[Systers-dev] dev machine

[Kathy Richardson]

Jen,

Thanks for stepping up and getting the basic installation running.

That is pretty close to what I thought was the problem.
The real obstacle was people cycles.  Jason is in the middle of packing 
interviewing and moving.
I'm getting ready for Open Studios - the one and only art 
exhibition/marketing event I do all year.  And we haven't entirely 
worked out a communication schedule with students yet.

I think this week will be a bit better...

-Kathy

Jennifer Redman wrote:
> I went ahead and got mailman working on dev.systers.org.  There were a
> couple of problems with the install:
>
> 1) Sendmail was running not Postfix.  Having 2 MTA's is not good.  We get
> VPS installs done by JohnCompanies and sometimes Sendmail gets slipped in.
>  You should only have one MTA running and that MTA in the case of Systers
> servers is Postfix.
>
> MTA = Mail Transport Agent
>
> If you do a ps -ef and see Sendmail and no Postfix then this is a good
> indicator that you need to do something to get Postfix working.  Often this
> means turning shutting down Sendmail.
>
> Svaksha actually got this part working
>
> 2) There was no initial site list.  This step is actually missing from the
> step-by-step instructions.  I've added those instructions to:
>
> http://systers.org/systers-dev/doku.php/step_by_step_system_installation
>
> 3) The site list needs to be added to mm_cfg.py  along with the actual
> specific domain information -- localhost.localdoman is not going to work on
> a public server.  In this case those parameters look like this:
>
> # Put YOUR site-specific settings below this line.
> MTA ='Postfix'
> MAILMAN_SITE_LIST = 'dev-systers-admin'
> DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'dev.systers.org'
> DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'dev.systers.org'
>
> Mailman is now running -- it looks like there may be a problem with the
> apache configurations given that no images are appearing on
> http://dev.systers.org/mailman/listinfo. (Check that all necessary dirs are
> readable by www-data.)
>
> My recommended next step is that those who are working on the install
> double-check the step-by-step instructions to make sure everything has been
> done according to the instructions.  And if things deviate please make a
> note ask questions on the list and we will make sure the instructions are
> updated if something is not correct.
>
> I would really appreciate it if everyone made an effort to read the
> documentation and follow the documentation, and help improve the
> documentation if something is missing. It took me many many hours to write
> those instructions -- please use them.
>
> Thanks,
> Jen
>
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