[Mailman-Users] mhonarc and non-world-readable archives problem

[Frank Cusack]

I've built mailman-2.1.9 with the mhonarc patch
(http://www.openinfo.co.uk/mm/patches/mhonarc/index.html) and it works
great.  I am running on Solaris 10 with python 2.5.

The problem I have is that the list archives are not created world-readable.

[root at mailman:/var/mailman/archives/public]# ls -l
total 1
lrwxrwxrwx   1 webservd mailman       34 Jan  7 15:32 test -> 
/var/mailman/archives/private/test
[root at mailman:/var/mailman/archives/public]# ls -l test/
total 21
drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman  mailman        9 Jan  7 15:35 2007-January
-rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman     1537 Jan  7 15:35 2007-January.txt
drwxrws---   2 mailman  mailman        3 Jan  7 15:35 htdig
-rw-rw-r--   1 webservd mailman     2640 Jan  7 15:35 index.html
-rw-rw----   1 mailman  mailman      566 Jan  7 15:35 pipermail.pck
[root at mailman:/var/mailman/archives/public]# ls -l test//2007-January
total 38
-rw-rw----   1 mailman  mailman     6851 Jan  7 15:35 .mhonarc.db
-rw-rw----   1 mailman  mailman     1177 Jan  7 15:35 author.html
-rw-rw----   1 mailman  mailman     1191 Jan  7 15:35 date.html
lrwxrwxrwx   1 mailman  mailman       11 Jan  7 15:35 index.html -> 
thread.html
-rw-rw----   1 mailman  mailman     2402 Jan  7 15:35 msg00000.html
-rw-rw----   1 mailman  mailman     1205 Jan  7 15:35 subject.html
-rw-rw----   1 mailman  mailman     1145 Jan  7 15:35 thread.html
[root at mailman:/var/mailman/archives/public]#

In mm_cfg.py, I have MAILMAN_GROUP = 'mailman'.  Now, if I set that
to www then would that make these files be created with group www?
Just wondering, because that doesn't actually help me.  My webserver
(thttpd) requires that files be world-readable in order to serve
them, regardless of whether the web server actually has access permission.
Also just wondering, why is public/test a symlink to ../private/test?
The mailing list (and the archives) are not private.

So how can I make the archives be created world-readable?

thanks
-frank