Michael Wood

I can now proudly launch.. December5th.info

Best viewed on my computer

If you haven’t got CPU scaling enabled, do it now.  On my Desktop PC there is a 30 watt saving between 2.2Ghz and 1Ghz, which is well used as you can see from the graph.

Time in state data:
michael@fornax:~$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats/time_in_state
2200000 194267
2000000 3460
1800000 37424
1000000 1872570

Check list for adding another (virtual) domain to mailman (on Debian 4.1.1-21)
Prerequsites:

• Mailman installed and configuring working with one domain
• Postfix installed and working with one domain
• Using postfix-to-mailman.py script (rather than manual aliases)

1. In /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py add your new domain:
   #params DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST
   e.g.
   add_virtualhost(’lists.domain2.com’,'lists.domain2.com’)
2. Add the site to your apache conf (/etc/apache2/apache2.conf - varies depending on where you’ve decided to put your configs)
   e.g.
   <VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerAdmin webmaster@example2.com
   ServerName lists.example2.comErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error-lists.example2.com.log
   CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.lists.example2.com.log common

   DocumentRoot /var/www/lists.example2.com/
   <directory /var/www/lists.example2.com>
   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
   AllowOverride None
   Order allow,deny
   allow from all
   # This directive allows us to have apache2’s default start page
   RedirectMatch ^/$ /cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo
   </directory>

   ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
   <directory “/usr/lib/cgi-bin”>
   AllowOverride None
   Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
   </directory>

   </VirtualHost>

   Now reload apache2
   $/etc/ini.d/apache2 reload

3. Confgiure Postfix:
   i) Add your new domain to postfix’s relay_domains option in /etc/postfix/main.cf
   e.g.
   relay_domains = lists.example1.com, lists.example2.comn.b Do NOT add your mailing list domain into the “mydestination” option, this will cause hours of confusion if you put it in here and not realise, as postfix will do as it says and assume postfix is the destination for the mail on that domain thus not passing it onto mailman.ii) Add your domain to the transport file /etc/postfix/transport
   e.g.
   lists.example1.com mailman:
   lists.example2.com mailman:

   Now hash the transport, $postmap /etc/postfix/transport

4. Reload mailman and postfix
   $/etc/init.d/mailman reload && /etc/init.d/postfix reload
5. Go and setup your actual mailing list
   e.g.http://lists.example2.com/
6. Have a beer to forget that you probably should have used sympa instead of mailman in the first place. Oh well.