[Mailman-Users] Logging question...

Richard Barrett r.barrett at openinfo.co.uk
Wed Jun 18 00:04:04 CEST 2003


At 22:39 17/06/2003, Glenn Sieb wrote:
>Richard Barrett said:
> > Usually 0664 for the files in $prefix/logs but the best way to get this
> > right is by running '$prefix/bin/check_perms -f' as either root or the
> > mailman user. This makes sure the setgid bit on directories are also
> > correct. I usually stop mailmanctl and the local MTA while check_perms is
> > doing its fix thing.
>
>Hey Richard! Thanks for the reply :)
>
>I did the check_perms -f (twice for good measure), and it found nothing...
>
>But why would my logs be empty? Are there directives in mm_cfg.py that I'm
>missing, perchance? The only logs that have anything are bounce (that was
>back in May) and error.1.gz (which was an apachectl stop/startssl)

Glenn

Looking at your listing for the logs directory, most of the files are not 
group writable. My guess is that is why not a whole lot is being written to 
them.

I note that only the bounce, error and mischief logs are group writable and 
those seem have some contents.

_All_ the files in my MM log directory have the following permissions:

-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman     72692 Jun 17 22:37 post

and the logs directory has the following permissions

drwxrwsr-x    3 mailman  mailman      4608 Jun 17 00:45 logs

I think the set gid on the directory keeps everything in order as log 
rotation is done.

I confess I am surprised that check_perms did not find any problems. It may 
be worth setting the permissions by hand and seeing if that makes any 
difference.

btw: what are you using to do your log rotation.

Richard

>Thanks!
>Glenn
>
>(an ls -l of /usr/local/mailman/logs:)
>-rw-rw-r--  1 mailman  mailman  94981 May  8 21:13 bounce
>-rw-rw-r--  1 mailman  mailman   3681 Jun 17 16:59 error
>-rw-rw-r--  1 mailman  mailman    102 Jun 17 00:00 error.0.gz
>-rw-rw-r--  1 mailman  mailman   1270 Jun 16 00:00 error.1.gz
>-rw-rw-r--  1 mailman  mailman     98 Jun 15 00:00 error.2.gz
>-rw-rw-r--  1 mailman  mailman     97 Jun 14 00:00 error.3.gz
>-rw-rw-r--  1 mailman  mailman     98 Jun 13 00:00 error.4.gz
>-rw-rw-r--  1 mailman  mailman     99 Jun 12 00:00 error.5.gz
>-rw-rw-r--  1 mailman  mailman     99 Jun 11 00:00 error.6.gz
>-rw-rw-r--  1 mailman  mailman    100 Jun 10 00:00 error.7.gz
>-rw-rw-r--  1 mailman  mailman     63 Jun 17 00:00 mischief
>-rw-rw-r--  1 mailman  mailman    105 Jun 17 00:00 mischief.0.gz
>-rw-rw-r--  1 mailman  mailman    179 Jun 16 00:00 mischief.1.gz
>-rw-rw-r--  1 mailman  mailman    101 Jun 15 00:00 mischief.2.gz
>-rw-rw-r--  1 mailman  mailman    190 Jun 14 00:00 mischief.3.gz
>-rw-rw-r--  1 mailman  mailman    101 Jun 13 00:00 mischief.4.gz
>-rw-rw-r--  1 mailman  mailman    102 Jun 12 00:00 mischief.5.gz
>-rw-rw-r--  1 mailman  mailman    168 Jun 11 00:00 mischief.6.gz
>-rw-rw-r--  1 mailman  mailman    103 Jun 10 00:00 mischief.7.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman     63 Jun 17 00:00 post
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman    101 Jun 17 00:00 post.0.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman     98 Jun 16 00:00 post.1.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman     97 Jun 15 00:00 post.2.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman     96 Jun 14 00:00 post.3.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman     97 Jun 13 00:00 post.4.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman     98 Jun 12 00:00 post.5.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman     98 Jun 11 00:00 post.6.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman     99 Jun 10 00:00 post.7.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman   1056 Jun 17 16:59 qrunner
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman    104 Jun 17 00:00 qrunner.0.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman    101 Jun 16 00:00 qrunner.1.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman    100 Jun 15 00:00 qrunner.2.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman     99 Jun 14 00:00 qrunner.3.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman    100 Jun 13 00:00 qrunner.4.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman    101 Jun 12 00:00 qrunner.5.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman    101 Jun 11 00:00 qrunner.6.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman    102 Jun 10 00:00 qrunner.7.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman     63 Jun 17 00:00 smtp
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman    101 Jun 17 00:00 smtp.0.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman     98 Jun 16 00:00 smtp.1.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman     97 Jun 15 00:00 smtp.2.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman     96 Jun 14 00:00 smtp.3.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman     97 Jun 13 00:00 smtp.4.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman     98 Jun 12 00:00 smtp.5.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman     98 Jun 11 00:00 smtp.6.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman     99 Jun 10 00:00 smtp.7.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 www      mailman     63 Jun 17 00:01 subscribe
>-rw-r--r--  1 www      mailman    106 Jun 17 00:01 subscribe.0.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 www      mailman    103 Jun 16 00:01 subscribe.1.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 www      mailman    102 Jun 15 00:01 subscribe.2.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 www      mailman    101 Jun 14 00:01 subscribe.3.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 www      mailman    102 Jun 13 00:01 subscribe.4.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 www      mailman    103 Jun 12 00:01 subscribe.5.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 www      mailman    103 Jun 11 00:01 subscribe.6.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 www      mailman    242 Jun 10 00:01 subscribe.7.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman     63 Jun 17 00:01 vette
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman    102 Jun 17 00:01 vette.0.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman     99 Jun 16 00:01 vette.1.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman     98 Jun 15 00:01 vette.2.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman     97 Jun 14 00:01 vette.3.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman     98 Jun 13 00:01 vette.4.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman     99 Jun 12 00:01 vette.5.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman     99 Jun 11 00:01 vette.6.gz
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman  mailman    100 Jun 10 00:01 vette.7.gz
>
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