mailman

[Jean Michel Bruenn]

God blame their developers :-P

ok, i understand, ty for your info

cheers jean

On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 09:02:34 -0800
Auke Kok <sofar at foo-projects.org> wrote:

> Jean Michel Bruenn wrote:
> > Ehlo,
> > 
> > the mailman installation is a joke or?
> > 
> > root at chani ~ # locate rmlist
> > /var/mailman/bin/rmlist
> > /var/mailman/cgi-bin/rmlist
> > /var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/rmlist.py
> > /var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/rmlist.pyc
> > root at chani ~ # 
> > 
> > Why it's installing binary files to
> > /var/mailman/bin and not to /bin /usr/bin
> > or something like this..?
> 
> you shouldn't mix mailman-specific stuff with the rest. mailman is highly 
> fragile and accidentally running rmlist or something else really can ruin your 
> day :)
> 
> for everyone's sanity, we have mailman install under it's own subtree 
> completely, so that we don't get called in the middle of the night when someone 
> accidentally deletes 20 years of archives or soemthing.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Auke
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