[Mailman-Users] Need assistance trouble shooting problem after moving Mailman from one box to another moving Mailman from one box to another

[Thomas Waters]

OK.  I believe the problem(s) are several, but the biggest one deals  
with postfix and the aliases.

As per check perms.  I ran as check_perms -f and there were a lot of  
lines all ending in (fixing)  but this was at the end of that:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/share/mailman/bin/check_perms", line 367, in ?
     checkdata()
   File "/usr/share/mailman/bin/check_perms", line 321, in checkdata
     mode = statmode(path)
   File "/usr/share/mailman/bin/check_perms", line 81, in statmode
     return os.stat(path)[ST_MODE]
OSError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: '/private/var/mailman/ 
lists/.DS_Store/config.pck'

As far as rebuilding the aliases table:

rxweb:~ tcwaters$ sudo /usr/share/mailman/bin/genaliases
postalias: fatal: open /private/var/mailman/data/aliases.db:  
Permission denied
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/share/mailman/bin/genaliases", line 116, in ?
     main()
   File "/usr/share/mailman/bin/genaliases", line 106, in main
     MTA.create(mlist, nolock=True, quiet=quiet)
   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 232, in create
     _update_maps()
   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 53, in  
_update_maps
     raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr)
RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias /private/var/ 
mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted)

As per the postfix main.cf, here is what is there under aliases:

#alias_maps = dbm:/etc/aliases
#alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
#alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, nis:mail.aliases
#alias_maps = netinfo:/aliases


doesn't look like there is any reference to mailman, correct?

Now, the web UI for mailman works.  I can add members to lists,  
delete members, etc.  The archives show up fine.  The issue is  
surrounding postfix and mailman talking to each other.


Messages being sent to the server get this returned after a while:
Your message has been enqueued and undeliverable for 1 day
to the following recipients:

   Recipient address: tcwaters at pharmacy.pitt.edu
   Reason: unable to deliver this message after 1 day

Delivery attempt history for your mail:

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 23:32:29 -0400 (EDT)
TCP active open: Failed connect()    Error: connection refused

Please note.  tcwaters at pharmacy.pitt.edu is not a mailman list, just  
an email acct.  so maybe the problem is with postfix and not with  
Mailman.  Or in my attempts to fix the mailman problem, I created  
other problems.


Thx,


On Jun 22, 2005, at 6:50 PM, Bill Landry wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Thomas Waters
> To: Bill Landry
> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 3:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Need assistance trouble shooting  
> problem after moving Mailman from one box to another moving Mailman  
> from one box to another
>
>
> On Jun 22, 2005, at 6:03 PM, Bill Landry wrote:
>
>> You should have an entry in your Postfix main.cf like (pointing to  
>> your correct aliases paths):
>>
>> alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases, hash:/usr/local/mailman/ 
>> data/aliases
>
> This may be a part of the problem.  I looked at the file and  
> neither of these exist.  But the lines allso have # so I thought  
> those were comments...
>
>> This will report any incorrect file/group permissions, or, to  
>> correct any file/group permissions issues, run as root:
>>
>> check_perms -f
>
> This seemed to work I believe. a number of lines said fixed.
>
>>> How do I rebuild the aliases.db file?
>>>
>>
>> bin/genaliases
> Here is what I get here:
>
> rxweb:~ tcwaters$ sudo /usr/share/mailman/bin/genaliases
> postalias: fatal: open /private/var/mailman/data/aliases.db:  
> Permission denied
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/bin/genaliases", line 116, in ?
>     main()
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/bin/genaliases", line 106, in main
>     MTA.create(mlist, nolock=True, quiet=quiet)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 232, in  
> create
>     _update_maps()
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 53, in  
> _update_maps
>     raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr)
> RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias /private/var/ 
> mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted)
>
> Hmmm, where exactly do your Mailmail aliases files live?  There  
> appears to be some be some conflict in the paths shown above.  Try  
> executing the genaliases command from the mailman top-level  
> directory as:
>
>     sudo bin/genaliases
>
> and see if that works for you.  Also, please keep posts and replies  
> on the list, helps to build the archive for future reference.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
>