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10 Start the Mailman qrunner</A>
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Mailman depends on a process called the ``qrunner'' to delivery all
email messages it sees. You must start the qrunner by executing the following
command from the <var>$prefix</var> directory:
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% bin/mailmanctl start
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You probably want to start Mailman every time you reboot your system. Exactly
how to do this depends on your operating system. If your OS supports the
<b class="program">chkconfig</b> command (e.g. RedHat and Mandrake Linuxes) you can
do the following (as root, from the Mailman install directory):
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% cp scripts/mailman /etc/init.d/mailman
% chkconfig --add mailman
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Note that <span class="file">/etc/init.d</span> may be <span class="file">/etc/rc.d/init.d</span> on some systems.
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On Gentoo Linux, you can do the following:
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% cp scripts/mailman /etc/init.d/mailman
% rc-update add mailman default
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On Debian, you probably want to use:
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% update-rc.d mailman defaults
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For <span class="Unix">Unix</span>es that don't support <b class="program">chkconfig</b>, you might try the
following set of commands:
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% cp scripts/mailman /etc/init.d/mailman
% cp misc/mailman /etc/init.d
% cd /etc/rc.d/rc0.d
% ln -s ../init.d/mailman K12mailman
% cd ../rc1.d
% ln -s ../init.d/mailman K12mailman
% cd ../rc2.d
% ln -s ../init.d/mailman S98mailman
% cd ../rc3.d
% ln -s ../init.d/mailman S98mailman
% cd ../rc4.d
% ln -s ../init.d/mailman S98mailman
% cd ../rc5.d
% ln -s ../init.d/mailman S98mailman
% cd ../rc6.d
% ln -s ../init.d/mailman K12mailman
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