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Initial setup of mailman3 on CentOS 7
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Setup mailman3 for testing on CentOS 7

Install Python3 using IUS repos

  1. Download and install IUS release rpm 
    curl -L -O https://centos7.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm
yum install ./ius-release.rpm
  2. Install python 3.6 and pip 
    yum install python36u python36u-pip
  3. Add convenience links 
    ln -s /usr/bin/python3.6 /usr/bin/python3
ln -s /usr/bin/pip3.6 /usr/bin/pip3
  4. Install virtualenv 
    pip3 install virtualenv

Setup dedicated user and environment for mailman

  1. Create mailman user 
    useradd -r -m -d /opt/mailman mailman
su - mailman
  2. Create python virtualenv and install 
    virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install mailman
  3. Execute mailman 
    mailman info
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titanve commented Jul 15, 2017

Kyle,

When I do 'mailman info' I get: PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lock/mailman'

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