Mailman 3 September 1999 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Creating New List via Web Interface
by J C Lawrence Sept. 17, 1999

Sept. 17, 1999

On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:10:35 -0600 (MDT) Darren Boyd <dboyd(a)its.to> wrote: > On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, J C Lawrence wrote: >> It is wirth observing that creating and deleting lists via a web >> interface is not entirely trivial. For one it is inherently tied >> to the MTA's aliases file, which, by crazy coincidence, is NOT > It also presents an entire new set of security concerns. With > sendmail, updating the aliases file is not enough, you also *as > … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Creating New List via Web Interface
by J C Lawrence Sept. 17, 1999

Sept. 17, 1999

On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 13:09:11 -0500 (CDT) Christopher Lindsey <lindsey(a)ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote: > One component is critical no matter what approach is taken... > Mailman needs to have some sort of routine that checks against a > file containing already existing addresses ( anything aliased or > in /etc/passwd in most cases). You can do this (somewhat) by trying a resolve on the MTA. > I personally find it easier to create a new list on the > commandline, but I'd rather … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Creating New List via Web Interface
by Chris Halverson Sept. 17, 1999

Sept. 17, 1999

J C Lawrence <claw(a)varesearch.com> writes: > On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:10:35 -0600 (MDT) > Darren Boyd <dboyd(a)its.to> wrote: > > > It also presents an entire new set of security concerns. With > > sendmail, updating the aliases file is not enough, you also *as > > root* have to run 'newaliases'. Mailman's great as it doesn't run > > as root (or doesn't have to, anyway). That is a great option. > > True, tho this could be sidestpped by … [View More]

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CGI wrapper
by John Hegarty Sept. 17, 1999

Sept. 17, 1999

checking for CGI wrapper GID... configure: error: ***** No existing group found for the cgi_wrapper program. ***** This is the group that your Web server runs CGI scripts under. ***** You might want to specify an existing group with the ***** --with-cgi-gid configure option. Please see your Web server's ***** documentation, and the INSTALL file for details Really silly question i am sure... but what do I do ? I am running SuSE Linux 6.0 with Apache 1.3. Thanks, --------------------------… [View More]

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CGI calls to Mailman
by Glen Malley Sept. 17, 1999

Sept. 17, 1999

So I've been messing around a bit, and I'm getting some interesting results. I wrote a short test cgi in python to open up a list (MailList.MailList("name")) and spit out the members of that list. When run from the command line, it works without a problem. When run as a cgi, it is unable to open the list. Can anybody quickly clue me in as to what needs to be done to get non-Mailman cgi's to have permission to access the lists? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------… [View More]

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Update: Mail not making it to the list
by George Ellenburg Sept. 16, 1999

Sept. 16, 1999

I've setup a test list, and here's what's happening: -Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient------- 379171EC22* 35267 Thu Sep 16 15:07:02 gme(a)s1.com test(a)s1.com (running Postfix as the MTA) A quick look in /home/mailman/data reveals: drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 1024 Sep 16 15:08 . drwxrwsr-x 17 mailman mailman 512 Sep 1 01:40 .. -rw-r----- 1 mailman mailman 13 Aug 22 12:56 adm.pw -rw-rw---- 1 nobody … [View More]mailman 106640 Sep 16 14:44 mm_q.12818.1 -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 18408 Sep 16 14:46 mm_q.12912.1 -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 18578 Sep 16 14:46 mm_q.12914.1 -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 18386 Sep 16 14:46 mm_q.12917.1 -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 18602 Sep 16 14:46 mm_q.12927.1 -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 18410 Sep 16 14:46 mm_q.12932.1 -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 18432 Sep 16 14:46 mm_q.12933.1 -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 35877 Sep 16 14:48 mm_q.15378.1 -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 18578 Sep 16 14:53 mm_q.18504.1 -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 18408 Sep 16 14:53 mm_q.18508.1 -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 18432 Sep 16 14:53 mm_q.18518.1 -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 106640 Sep 16 14:53 mm_q.18521.1 -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 18386 Sep 16 14:53 mm_q.18525.1 -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 18602 Sep 16 14:53 mm_q.18526.1 -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 18410 Sep 16 14:53 mm_q.18537.1 -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 35877 Sep 16 14:53 mm_q.18545.1 -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 18395 Sep 16 15:00 mm_q.21691.1 -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 18565 Sep 16 15:00 mm_q.21701.1 -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 18373 Sep 16 15:00 mm_q.21702.1 -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 18399 Sep 16 15:00 mm_q.21724.1 -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 37329 Sep 16 15:04 mm_q.25299.1 -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 37521 Sep 16 15:04 mm_q.25302.1 -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 37433 Sep 16 15:04 mm_q.25303.1 -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 36644 Sep 16 15:05 mm_q.25372.1 -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 34654 Sep 16 15:07 mm_q.25485.1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 178 Sep 16 14:35 pending_subscriptions.db For all of the lists, the "Maximum length in Kb of a message body. Use 0 for no limit." value is either set to zero and more recently 1024 just as a test. A quick 'ps' reveals: nobody 25478 21.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Z - 0:00.00 (python) nobody 25483 0.0 0.4 2156 1256 ?? S 3:07PM 0:00.01 /usr/local/bin/python /home/mailman/scripts/deliver nobody 25484 0.0 0.1 496 248 ?? I 3:07PM 0:00.00 sh -c /usr/local/bin/python /home/mailman/scripts/contact_transport nobody 25485 0.0 0.6 2456 1964 ?? S 3:07PM 0:00.14 /usr/local/bin/python /home/mailman/scripts/contact_transport nobody 29120 0.0 0.6 2412 1940 ?? Rs 3:11PM 0:00.10 /usr/local/bin/python /home/mailman/scripts/post dclist nobody 29121 0.0 0.6 2296 1820 ?? Rs 3:11PM 0:00.09 /usr/local/bin/python /home/mailman/scripts/post prirecon nobody 29122 0.0 0.5 2148 1668 ?? Rs 3:11PM 0:00.07 /usr/local/bin/python /home/mailman/scripts/post s1help Any clues? [View Less]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachments Not Making it to the List
by Florian Weimer Sept. 16, 1999

Sept. 16, 1999

"George Ellenburg" <gme(a)s1.com> writes: > It appears MailMan is not wanting to accept a simple 78k Word document > attachment and disburse it to the list. There's a default limit of 40K per message for newly created lists.

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cron error
by Bek Oberin Sept. 16, 1999

Sept. 16, 1999

I'm getting errors thus. Are they important and how do I fix them? To: list(a)hiro.netizen.com.au Subject: Cron <list@hiro> /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/var/list> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=list> Exception exceptions.ValueError: 'unpack list of wrong size' in <method +FileLock.__del__ of FileLock instance at 8182110> ignored -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-… [View More]

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Public Lists not being displayed on ListInfo
by George Ellenburg Sept. 16, 1999

Sept. 16, 1999

I have at least two mailing lists which are all public, which aren't being displayed from the ListInfo pages. They are, however, displaying fine from the List Admin page. I've tried toggling their public/ private status to no avail. Any clues? Thanks, George Ellenburg Security First Technologies gme(a)s1.com

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mailman locking woes
by Justin Wells Sept. 16, 1999

Sept. 16, 1999

Mailman has wedged itself several times now. Each time it has lots of copies of itself running, all waiting for the lock on a list. It looks like whatever process is holding the lock has wedged, and the whole list has got stuck. I noticed there were one or two zombies so I'm guessing that somehow the zombies hold the lock, but I'm not sure of that. Has anyone seen this before? Justin

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