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On Jan 3, 2007, at 9:37 AM, Fil wrote:
How do I fetch the dev branch, what set of commands do I use to
install it and migrate a few lists. Nothing fancy, but precise urls and
commands.Take a look at
and let me know what you think.
Fil, thanks for taking a look.
OK; I was able to follow the instructions to the point of doing
configure; make; make install. Here are my first glance/field notes:I had to tweak permisions on logs/* to be able to launch bin/ mailmanctl start, as they had been created with g-w (the logs/ dir is
correctly g+sxw)
I didn't notice this before because my shell umask was already set to
002, but if yours is set to e.g. 022, you'll get this problem. I'm
adding an explicit "os.umask(2)" to the Mailman initialization stuff
so that by default everything will be group writable. This fixes the
log file permissions.
I'm not committing this change yet though because it doesn't solve
the mailman.db permissions. My guess is that somewhere in the
SQLAlchemy, PySQLite, SQLite stack, the permissions or umask are
getting forced. I just need to figure out the right way to tell SA
how to set the permissions when using the SQLite engine.
I'd also like to review and eliminate as many other umask setting
stuff in Mailman as possible. Ideally, we'd set the umask in
initialize() and only if we need something other than 002 would we do
another (temporary) umask.
then i was able to create a list by using bin/newlist; it did create a directory in lists/listname@server/ (empty directory)
Yep it still does this because this is where it will store things
like list-specific templates and such. It may eventually go away,
but for now it should be fine to exist and be empty.
I found a sqlite db in data/mailman.db (I understand that to use a
MySQL db I just need to create it and change the SQLAlchemy variable to
reflect this db??)
Should be, although I haven't tried it. Once the SQLite engine works
well enough I definitely plan on trying MySQL at least.
the web server launched ok on port 2580 (I guess I'll have to
ProxyPass to it from apache, which is fine).
Yep, there are comments in Defaults.py about this. We'll get this
into the documentation asap. One question I have is whether we
should make this the /only/ (or only supported) way to run MM2.2?
It broke however when I tried to connect to it (put the list admin
passwd, and got : UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe9
in position 207: ordinal not in range(128)maybe because I chose "french" as default language (I then switched to english, created another list, and got to the web ui)
Yikes. The other thing I really want to do is to get our unicode
story cleaned up. Again, ideally, we'd convert all strings to and
from their encodings at the edges of the system and only deal
internally with unicode. That's one reason why I'm using unicode
columns in the SA tables. I will try to reproduce this.
tried to modify the list options thu the web ui and got
SQLError: (OperationalError) attempt to write a readonly database
'UPDATE "List data" SET bounce_processing=? WHERE "Listdata".list_id
= ?' [0, 2]
This will happen if the permissions on data/mailman.db are
incorrect. Try ensuring group write on that file and try again.
I haven't tried yet to convert an older list to the new system.
Cool, again, your testing is much appreciated!
- -Barry
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