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You need to explicitly allow Mailman's wrapper program +to be used with smrsh or Mailman will not work. If mail is not getting +delivered to Mailman's wrapper program and you're getting an ``operating +system error'' in your mail syslog, this could be your problem. + +<p> +One good way of enabling this is: + +<p> + +<ul> +<li>Find out where your Sendmail executes its smrsh wrapper + +<p> +<div class="verbatim"><pre> + % grep smrsh /etc/mail/sendmail.cf + </pre></div> + +<p> +</li> +<li>Figure out where smrsh expects symlinks for allowable mail + programs. At the very beginning of the following output you will + see a full path to some directory, e.g. <span class="file">/var/adm/sm.bin</span> or + similar: + +<p> +<div class="verbatim"><pre> + % strings $path_to_smrsh | less + </pre></div> + +<p> +</li> +<li>cd into <span class="file">/var/adm/sm.bin</span>, or where ever it happens to reside + on your system - alternatives include <span class="file">/etc/smrsh</span>, + <span class="file">/var/smrsh</span> and <span class="file">/usr/local/smrsh</span>. + +<p> +<div class="verbatim"><pre> + % cd /var/adm/sm.bin + </pre></div> + +<p> +</li> +<li>Create a symbolic link to Mailman's wrapper program: + +<p> +<div class="verbatim"><pre> + % ln -s /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman mailman + </pre></div> +</li> +</ul> + +<p> + +<div class="navigation"> +<div class='online-navigation'> +<p></p><hr /> +<table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> +<tr> +<td class='online-navigation'><a rel="prev" title="6.3 using the Sendmail" + href="node31.html"><img src='previous.png' + border='0' height='32' alt='Previous Page' width='32' /></a></td> +<td class='online-navigation'><a rel="parent" title="6.3 using the Sendmail" + href="node31.html"><img src='up.png' + border='0' height='32' alt='Up one Level' width='32' /></a></td> +<td class='online-navigation'><a rel="next" title="6.3.2 integrating Sendmail and" + href="node33.html"><img src='next.png' + border='0' height='32' alt='Next Page' width='32' /></a></td> +<td align="center" width="100%">GNU Mailman - Installation Manual</td> +<td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.png' + border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> +<td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.png' + border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> +<td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.png' + border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> +</tr></table> +<div class='online-navigation'> +<b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> +<a class="sectref" rel="prev" href="node31.html">6.3 Using the Sendmail</a> +<b class="navlabel">Up:</b> +<a class="sectref" rel="parent" href="node31.html">6.3 Using the Sendmail</a> +<b class="navlabel">Next:</b> +<a class="sectref" rel="next" href="node33.html">6.3.2 Integrating Sendmail and</a> +</div> +</div> +<hr /> +<span class="release-info">Release 2.1, documentation updated on December 5, 2007.</span> +</div> +<!--End of Navigation Panel--> + +</body> +</html> |