[Mailman-Users] Archives don't seem to be working

[Phil Stracchino]

I seem to be having a problem with archiving for Mailman lists.

I have mailman 2.0.5 installed in /opt/mailman on a Slackware 7-based
Linux system running Postfix.  I currently have one list, ba-b5, set up.  
I have archiving turned on for the list, and the following set in
/opt/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py:

DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_PRIVATE = 1
ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX = 0

According to the documentation, this should give me private-access
archives using only the web-based archiving mechanism.

When I set up my list, Mailman created an archive directory
/opt/mailman/archives/private/ba-b5.mbox for the list.  However, the
archives page appeared to expect /opt/mailman/archives/private/ba-b5 - at
any rate, that's what it tried to access.  I tried making
archives/private/ba-b5 a symlink to the existing
archives/private/ba-b5.mbox directory, but the archive page still wasn't
happy.  After some further experimentation, I now have both
archives/private/ba-b5 and archives/private/ba-b5.mbox directories, both
with valid-looking contents except that index.html is zero bytes in
size.  Each appears to have one message archived in it; the message in
ba-b5.mbox is a real message, the message in ba-b5 is a test message sent
a little later.  I think Mailman is actually trying to use the ba-b5
directory, but is falling down when it comes to generating the index.  I
also see that the database directories are empty -- should they be?


Here's the contents of /opt/mailman/archives/private:

babylon5:root:/opt/mailman:31 # ls -lR archives/private       
archives/private:
total 8
drwxrwsr-x    4 mailman  mailman      4096 May 25 12:08 ba-b5/
drwxrwsr-x    4 mailman  mailman      4096 May 25 12:01 ba-b5.mbox/

archives/private/ba-b5:
total 12
drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman  mailman      4096 May 25 12:07 2001-May/
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman       537 May 25 12:07 2001-May.txt
drwxrws---    2 mailman  mailman      4096 May 25 12:07 database/
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman         0 May 25 12:07 index.html

archives/private/ba-b5/2001-May:
total 20
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman      1577 May 25 12:07 000000.html
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman      1519 May 25 12:07 author.html
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman      1523 May 25 12:07 date.html
lrwxrwxrwx    1 mailman  mailman        11 May 25 12:07 index.html -> thread.html
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman      1517 May 25 12:07 subject.html
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman      1542 May 25 12:07 thread.html

archives/private/ba-b5/database:
total 0

archives/private/ba-b5.mbox:
total 12
drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman  mailman      4096 May 25 12:01 2001-May/
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman      2218 May 25 12:01 2001-May.txt
drwxrws---    2 mailman  mailman      4096 May 25 12:01 database/
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman         0 May 25 12:01 index.html

archives/private/ba-b5.mbox/2001-May:
total 20
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman      3432 May 25 12:01 000000.html
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman      1524 May 25 12:01 author.html
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman      1528 May 25 12:01 date.html
lrwxrwxrwx    1 mailman  mailman        11 May 25 12:01 index.html -> thread.html
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman      1522 May 25 12:01 subject.html
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman      1547 May 25 12:01 thread.html

archives/private/ba-b5.mbox/database:
total 0


And here's the sum total of settings in mm_cfg.py:


DEFAULT_URL         = 'http://www.babcom.com/mailman/'
DEFAULT_HOST_NAME   = 'babcom.com'


DEFAULT_ARCHIVE = 0
DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_PRIVATE = 1
ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX = 0
SMTPHOST = 'smtp.babcom.com'
SMTPPORT = 25
DEFAULT_NNTP_HOST = 'isn'

USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER = 1
DEFAULT_MAX_NUM_RECIPIENTS = 5
DEFAULT_REPLY_GOES_TO_LIST = 1
DEFAULT_PRIVATE_ROSTER = 1

PENDING_REQUEST_LIFE = days(5)
DELIVERY_RETRY_PERIOD = days(5)


Can anyone offer me any pointers as to what may be wrong here and why my
archives aren't working?  I'm guessing it has something to do with those
zero-length index.html files, but I don't know why they're not being
properly generated.


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