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You must start the qrunner by executing the following command from the <var>$prefix</var> directory: <p> <div class="verbatim"><pre> % bin/mailmanctl start </pre></div> <p> 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): <p> <div class="verbatim"><pre> % cp scripts/mailman /etc/init.d/mailman % chkconfig --add mailman </pre></div> <p> Note that <span class="file">/etc/init.d</span> may be <span class="file">/etc/rc.d/init.d</span> on some systems. <p> On Gentoo Linux, you can do the following: <p> <div class="verbatim"><pre> % cp scripts/mailman /etc/init.d/mailman % rc-update add mailman default </pre></div> <p> On Debian, you probably want to use: <p> <div class="verbatim"><pre> % update-rc.d mailman defaults </pre></div> <p> For <span class="Unix">Unix</span>es that don't support <b class="program">chkconfig</b>, you might try the following set of commands: <p> <div class="verbatim"><pre> % 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 </pre></div> <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="9 set up cron" href="node41.html"><img src='previous.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Previous Page' width='32' /></a></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="parent" title="Front Matter" href="front.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="11 check the hostname" href="node43.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="node41.html">9 Set up cron</a> <b class="navlabel">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="parent" href="front.html">Front Matter</a> <b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="next" href="node43.html">11 Check the hostname</a> </div> </div> <hr /> <span class="release-info">Release 2.1, documentation updated on December 14, 2009.</span> </div> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> </body> </html>