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Diffstat (limited to 'src/mailman/core/initialize.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/mailman/core/initialize.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/mailman/core/initialize.py b/src/mailman/core/initialize.py index 4c02df53a..2e5a4238f 100644 --- a/src/mailman/core/initialize.py +++ b/src/mailman/core/initialize.py @@ -68,7 +68,13 @@ def search_for_configuration_file(): # ./mailman.cfg config_path = os.path.abspath('mailman.cfg') if os.path.exists(config_path): - return os.path.abspath(config_path) + return config_path + # As a special case, look in ./var/etc/mailman.cfg. We can't do this in + # the Configuration.load() method because that depends on the + # configuration system, which of course is not set up at that time! + config_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join('var', 'etc', 'mailman.cfg')) + if os.path.exists(config_path): + return config_path # ~/.mailman.cfg config_path = os.path.join(os.getenv('HOME'), '.mailman.cfg') if os.path.exists(config_path): |