mhonarc and non-world-readable archives problem
I've built mailman-2.1.9 with the mhonarc patch (http://www.openinfo.co.uk/mm/patches/mhonarc/index.html) and it works great. I am running on Solaris 10 with python 2.5.
The problem I have is that the list archives are not created world-readable.
[root@mailman:/var/mailman/archives/public]# ls -l total 1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 webservd mailman 34 Jan 7 15:32 test -> /var/mailman/archives/private/test [root@mailman:/var/mailman/archives/public]# ls -l test/ total 21 drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 9 Jan 7 15:35 2007-January -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 1537 Jan 7 15:35 2007-January.txt drwxrws--- 2 mailman mailman 3 Jan 7 15:35 htdig -rw-rw-r-- 1 webservd mailman 2640 Jan 7 15:35 index.html -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 566 Jan 7 15:35 pipermail.pck [root@mailman:/var/mailman/archives/public]# ls -l test//2007-January total 38 -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 6851 Jan 7 15:35 .mhonarc.db -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 1177 Jan 7 15:35 author.html -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 1191 Jan 7 15:35 date.html lrwxrwxrwx 1 mailman mailman 11 Jan 7 15:35 index.html -> thread.html -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 2402 Jan 7 15:35 msg00000.html -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 1205 Jan 7 15:35 subject.html -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 1145 Jan 7 15:35 thread.html [root@mailman:/var/mailman/archives/public]#
In mm_cfg.py, I have MAILMAN_GROUP = 'mailman'. Now, if I set that to www then would that make these files be created with group www? Just wondering, because that doesn't actually help me. My webserver (thttpd) requires that files be world-readable in order to serve them, regardless of whether the web server actually has access permission. Also just wondering, why is public/test a symlink to ../private/test? The mailing list (and the archives) are not private.
So how can I make the archives be created world-readable?
thanks -frank
Frank Cusack wrote:
I've built mailman-2.1.9 with the mhonarc patch (http://www.openinfo.co.uk/mm/patches/mhonarc/index.html) and it works great. I am running on Solaris 10 with python 2.5.
The problem I have is that the list archives are not created world-readable.
[root@mailman:/var/mailman/archives/public]# ls -l total 1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 webservd mailman 34 Jan 7 15:32 test -> /var/mailman/archives/private/test [root@mailman:/var/mailman/archives/public]# ls -l test/ total 21 drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 9 Jan 7 15:35 2007-January -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 1537 Jan 7 15:35 2007-January.txt drwxrws--- 2 mailman mailman 3 Jan 7 15:35 htdig -rw-rw-r-- 1 webservd mailman 2640 Jan 7 15:35 index.html -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 566 Jan 7 15:35 pipermail.pck [root@mailman:/var/mailman/archives/public]# ls -l test//2007-January total 38 -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 6851 Jan 7 15:35 .mhonarc.db -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 1177 Jan 7 15:35 author.html -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 1191 Jan 7 15:35 date.html lrwxrwxrwx 1 mailman mailman 11 Jan 7 15:35 index.html -> thread.html -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 2402 Jan 7 15:35 msg00000.html -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 1205 Jan 7 15:35 subject.html -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 1145 Jan 7 15:35 thread.html [root@mailman:/var/mailman/archives/public]#
In mm_cfg.py, I have MAILMAN_GROUP = 'mailman'. Now, if I set that to www then would that make these files be created with group www? Just wondering, because that doesn't actually help me.
Don't do it. It will break almost everything. See <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq06.016.htp>.
That said, these files in general are created by ArchRunner and are created in the group in which ArchRunner runs which is normally the group of the user that ran 'bin/mailmanctl start'.
My webserver (thttpd) requires that files be world-readable in order to serve them, regardless of whether the web server actually has access permission. Also just wondering, why is public/test a symlink to ../private/test? The mailing list (and the archives) are not private.
The archives are always created/stored in archives/private. This is at least in part so archives can be changed back and forth between private and public simply by creating/deleting the symlink. The files themselves are normally world readable. I don't know why the .html files in your monthly directories are not world readable. They should be. Perhaps it has something to do with the MHonArc patch. Also, is msg00000.html an archived message? Normally these are named NNNNNN.html, not msgNNNNN.html.
So how can I make the archives be created world-readable?
I'm guessing this has something to do with the MHonArc patch you installed, but I really don't know.
-- Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On January 7, 2007 5:25:49 PM -0800 Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> wrote:
Frank Cusack wrote:
I've built mailman-2.1.9 with the mhonarc patch (http://www.openinfo.co.uk/mm/patches/mhonarc/index.html) and it works great. I am running on Solaris 10 with python 2.5.
The problem I have is that the list archives are not created world-readable.
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So how can I make the archives be created world-readable?
I'm guessing this has something to do with the MHonArc patch you installed, but I really don't know.
I looked over the patch and didn't see any umask changes. Maybe it was another patch that did something. Anyway ... I changed the MHONARC_ARCHIVER_PATH option to include '-umask 002' and it works. That's good enough for me.
-frank
Frank Cusack wrote:
I looked over the patch and didn't see any umask changes. Maybe it was another patch that did something. Anyway ... I changed the MHONARC_ARCHIVER_PATH option to include '-umask 002' and it works. That's good enough for me.
So it seems that with the patch installed and MHonArc archiving enabled, it is MhonArc and not Mailman that creates the problem files. Thus your solution seems appropriate, or perhaps there is a way to configure the default permissions on these files within MHonArc.
-- Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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