[Mailman-Users] Cannot create public archive links

[Robert Love]

Alex,

The files should be owned by mailman from your $Prefix (/usr/local/mailman)
directory run.

 bin/check_perms -f

This will list any permission problems you may have.

Robert Love



----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Chavez" <alex at laplaza.org>
To: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 12:15 PM
Subject: [Mailman-Users] Cannot create public archive links


> After an ordeal reinstalling Python mailman has not listed any new
> archives. I traced it down to the fact that the links to
> mailman/archived/private do not exist in the public directory. So I went
> in and toggled that option in the admin area. The links do not get
> created and I get this error: (running: Mailman 1.0 python 1.5.2 on Sun
> Solaris 7)
>
> Traceback (innermost last):
>    File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main
>      main()
>    File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 167, in main
>      ChangeOptions(lst, category, cgi_data, doc)
>    File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 885, in
> ChangeOptions
>      lst.Save()
>    File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 794, in Save
>      self.CheckHTMLArchiveDir()
>    File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 245, in
> CheckHTMLArchiveDir
>      breaklink(pubdir)
>    File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 56, in
> breaklink
>      reraise()
>    File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 52, in
> breaklink
>      os.unlink(link)
> OSError: [Errno 1] Not owner: '/usr/local/mailman/archives/public/anyone'
>
>
>
> Anyone know who should own the anyone directory and it's contents?
>
> I tried root daemon and mailman. Keeping the group as mailman.
>
> In fact root owns every file in the mail mailman directory which seems
> kind of fishy. This may be due to recovering the program from a backup
> copy.
>
>
> Response appreciated
>
>
>
> Alex Chavez  | System Admin
> La Plaza Telecommunity | laplaza.org
> Taos.  New Mexico  |  505.758.1836
>
>
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