2 initial config problems (virtual hosts and permissions)
I just started playing around w/ Mailman this morning so I'm VERY new to all this ;) The initial config and install seemed to go ok but I have a couple of questions/problems/issues I'd appreciate some help w/. I looked around the FAQ and found info on 1 of them but I can't seem to figure out the right syntax to fix my problem.
BTW I used the mailman-install.txt file as my guide. I'm running this on a Solaris9 machine w/ postfix as the MTA.
- Error: Unknown virtual host: machine I was able to create the mailman list via the cli (step 8) w/o any problems. When I try creating a list via the web though I get the above error. I've played around w/ a few combinations of machine machine.domain.tld etc in the mm_cfg.py file and the add_virtualhost parameter but I still either get the error or I get another page which says something about a "bug" in the program (funny thing is even when I get this page the list is created).
FWIW as I mentioned the machine is also our mail server, the hostname command returns MACHINE (in case that's important). The DNS name (aka it's not a CNAME) of the machine is MACHINE.DOMAIN.TLD (which is also the DEFAULT_URL_HOST [set via the configure option]), email though is addressed to @DOMAIN.TLD (which is also the DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST [set via the configure option]). As mentioned the error just says "MACHINE" so I've tried things like add_defaultdomain ('MACHINE', 'DOMAIN.TLD') but that's when I get the other "bug" page (apologies I don't have a copy handy but if it's important I can probably regenerate it). Also I noticed when I pull up the http://machine/mailman/admin page at the bottom is says "Send questions and comments to mailman@MACHINE" that's it not mailman@MACHINE.DOMAIN.TLD. Is that somehow related? What's the appropriate syntax so that MACHINE is an "acceptable" virtual host.
BTW in case it's related I don't have any virtual hosts set in postfix and mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain myhostname = MACHINE.DOMAIN.TLD mydomain = DOMAIN.TLD
- Looking at the maillog file I'm seeing this error occasionally
Feb 28 16:31:31 MACHINE postfix/postalias[1765]: [ID 947731 mail.crit] fatal: open /local/home/mailman/data/aliases.dir: Permission denied
Applicable info for this error includes: MACHINE# ls -al /local/home/mailman/data/ total 44 drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Feb 28 16:38 ./ drwxrwsr-x 20 root mailman 512 Feb 28 16:02 ../ -rw-r----- 1 root mailman 41 Feb 28 16:22 adm.pw -rw-rw---- 1 root mailman 1165 Feb 28 16:38 aliases -rw-r----- 1 mailman mailman 0 Feb 28 16:38 aliases.dir -rw-r----- 1 mailman mailman 1024 Feb 28 16:38 aliases.pag
At one point I did chown aliases* to mailman but it has since reverted. When I originally configured mailman I used the --with-mail-gid=postdrop and I didn't specify a username (there is obviously a mailman user ;)). Although the install.txt file recommended using hash my install of postfix has problems w/ that so I'm using: alias_maps = dbm:/etc/mail/aliases,dbm:/local/home/mailman/data/aliases
All things postfix are running as the user postfix, all things mailman (qrunner is the only continuous process right?) are running as mailman. I did put the postfix "user" in the mailman group (mailman isn't in there though) thinking that may help but it didn't seem too. BTW the apache server is mostly running as nobody, there is one instance that ends up as root. (The apache server is brand new too but that install/config seems to have gone ok. Eventually though I want to clear up the 1 root instance and integrate SSL in but I figured it was best to get the above issues worked out first ;))
What are the proper owner/permission settings for these files?
Thanks for the hints/clues/suggestions.
FH wrote:
- Error: Unknown virtual host: machine I was able to create the mailman list via the cli (step 8) w/o any problems. When I try creating a list via the web though I get the above error. I've played around w/ a few combinations of machine machine.domain.tld etc in the mm_cfg.py file and the add_virtualhost parameter but I still either get the error or I get another page which says something about a "bug" in the program (funny thing is even when I get this page the list is created).
This error occurs because the hostname of the URL used to access the list create web page is not a key (one of the "URL host" entries) in the VIRTUAL_HOSTS dictionary.
FWIW as I mentioned the machine is also our mail server, the hostname command returns MACHINE (in case that's important). The DNS name (aka it's not a CNAME) of the machine is MACHINE.DOMAIN.TLD (which is also the DEFAULT_URL_HOST [set via the configure option]), email though is addressed to @DOMAIN.TLD (which is also the DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST [set via the configure option]). As mentioned the error just says "MACHINE" so I've tried things like add_defaultdomain ('MACHINE', 'DOMAIN.TLD')
What's this? Do you mean
add_virtualhost('MACHINE', 'DOMAIN.TLD')
which is what you should do to allow 'MACHINE' to be a URL host.
but that's when I get the other "bug" page (apologies I don't have a copy handy but if it's important I can probably regenerate it).
If it resulted after adding the above add_virtualhost() in mm_cfg.py, I don't know why without seeing it.
If you're not actually using virtual hosts, you can set
VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW = Off
in mm_cfg.py, and it will avoid checks like the one that produces the above error.
Also I noticed when I pull up the http://machine/mailman/admin page at the bottom is says "Send questions and comments to mailman@MACHINE" that's it not mailman@MACHINE.DOMAIN.TLD. Is that somehow related?
Here again, the host name part of the URL ('machine' in the case of http://machine/mailman/admin) is looked up in the VIRTUAL_HOSTS dictionary and the corresponding email host is used inless there is no such key in which case just the host name is used.
What's the appropriate syntax so that MACHINE is an "acceptable" virtual host.
add_virtualhost('MACHINE', 'DOMAIN.TLD')
BTW in case it's related I don't have any virtual hosts set in postfix and mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain myhostname = MACHINE.DOMAIN.TLD mydomain = DOMAIN.TLD
- Looking at the maillog file I'm seeing this error occasionally
Feb 28 16:31:31 MACHINE postfix/postalias[1765]: [ID 947731 mail.crit] fatal: open /local/home/mailman/data/aliases.dir: Permission denied
Applicable info for this error includes: MACHINE# ls -al /local/home/mailman/data/ total 44 drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Feb 28 16:38 ./ drwxrwsr-x 20 root mailman 512 Feb 28 16:02 ../ -rw-r----- 1 root mailman 41 Feb 28 16:22 adm.pw -rw-rw---- 1 root mailman 1165 Feb 28 16:38 aliases -rw-r----- 1 mailman mailman 0 Feb 28 16:38 aliases.dir -rw-r----- 1 mailman mailman 1024 Feb 28 16:38 aliases.pag
At one point I did chown aliases* to mailman but it has since reverted. When I originally configured mailman I used the --with-mail-gid=postdrop and I didn't specify a username (there is obviously a mailman user ;)). Although the install.txt file recommended using hash my install of postfix has problems w/ that so I'm using: alias_maps = dbm:/etc/mail/aliases,dbm:/local/home/mailman/data/aliases
All things postfix are running as the user postfix, all things mailman (qrunner is the only continuous process right?) are running as mailman. I did put the postfix "user" in the mailman group (mailman isn't in there though)
The 'mailman' user should definitely be in the 'mailman' group.
thinking that may help but it didn't seem too. BTW the apache server is mostly running as nobody, there is one instance that ends up as root. (The apache server is brand new too but that install/config seems to have gone ok. Eventually though I want to clear up the 1 root instance and integrate SSL in but I figured it was best to get the above issues worked out first ;))
What are the proper owner/permission settings for these files?
Have you tried bin/check_perms?
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