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

Frank Cusack fcusack at fcusack.com
Mon Jan 8 03:27:43 CET 2007


On January 7, 2007 5:25:49 PM -0800 Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net> wrote:
> Frank Cusack wrote:
>
>> 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.

...
>> So how can I make the archives be created world-readable?
>
>
> I'm guessing this has something to do with the MHonArc patch you
> installed, but I really don't know.

I looked over the patch and didn't see any umask changes.  Maybe
it was another patch that did something.  Anyway ... I changed
the MHONARC_ARCHIVER_PATH option to include '-umask 002' and
it works.  That's good enough for me.

-frank


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