[Systers-dev] dev machine

[स्वक्ष]

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 02:12, Jennifer Redman <jenred at gmail.com> 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'

Ah ok. On saturday when I setup a systers-test list I was able to send
a test email. I did get an email (albeit belated, by evening I stopped
waiting for the message :)) although I set the following:
MTA ='Postfix'
MAILMAN_SITE_LIST = 'mailman'
DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'localhost.localdomain'
DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'localhost.localdomain'
add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)

This will obviously not work outside of the admin level --there is no
public url defined. So I'll delete the test list and create a new
public test list.



> 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.

Ok, I will look into them. Its just that I didnt want to edit the wiki
without asking but moreso because I thought the wiki was the canonical
one with no mistakes :)


> 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 :)

-- 
thanks and regards,
vid || http://svaksha.com