[Mailman-Users] moved lists and now they don't work

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value.net
Tue Jun 19 07:08:40 CEST 2007 

carconni wrote:
>
>I had to move lists.  We had a hardware failure and they had to move  
>to our new mail server.  The mail server migration went fine and we  
>thought mailman moved okay as well but we were wrong.
>
>Earlier today I tried to create a new list and and got an error so my  
>boss said to check permissions.  I ran the /usr/share/mailman/bin/ 
>check_perms -f in every mailman file I could find but Im still  
>getting permission errors.  I even gave global permissions to all the  
>archives but no luck.


It doesn't matter where your current directory is. You just run

/usr/share/mailman/bin/check_perms -f

as root until it reports no errors.


>Right now, lists have stopped - they just aren't working and I just  
>can't figure out what the problem is.  The more we tried to fix it,  
>the worse it got.  Unfortunately my company heavily relies on them so  
>I figured before I set out to manually configure mail aliases, does  
>anyone know a way around this mess?
>
>from var/mailman/logs/error: (the permissions and ownership for the  
>client-list is -rw-r--r--   1 root  mailman  479 Jun 18 13:30 / 
>private/var/mailman/archives/private/client-list/index.html)


It should be group writable - i.e. -rw-rw-r--   1 root  mailman


>Jun 18 19:24:34 2007 (10816) SHUNTING: 1182219873.5167899 
>+ceff885a98ff1c83a23f7e83b4d94678813ee808
>Jun 18 19:25:36 2007 (10819) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 1]  
>Operation not permitted: '/private/var/mailman/archives/public/client- 
>list'
>Jun 18 19:25:36 2007 (10819) Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in  
>_oneloop
>     self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in  
>_onefile
>     keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line  
>133, in _dispose
>     mlist.Save()
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 529, in Save
>     self.CheckHTMLArchiveDir()
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 235,  
>in CheckHTMLArchiveDir
>     breaklink(pubdir)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 55,  
>in breaklink
>     os.unlink(link)
>OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/private/var/mailman/ 
>archives/public/client-list'


I'm guessing when you backed up and moved from the old machines, you
wound up with files in /private/var/mailman/archives/public/

There should only be symlinks in that directory. Every
/private/var/mailman/archives/public/<listname> and
/private/var/mailman/archives/public/<listname.mbox> is a symlink to
the corresponding /private/var/mailman/archives/private/<listname> and
/private/var/mailman/archives/private/<listname.mbox> directory.

Either fixing that or simply removing everything in the
/private/var/mailman/archives/public/ will allow Mailman to recreate
the proper symlinks.


>Jun 18 19:25:36 2007 (10819) SHUNTING: 1182219935.3121431 
>+07ef8a32317dde697d0042ee151b8fd11d41b398
>Jun 18 19:25:36 2007 (10816) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 13]  
>Permission denied: '/private/var/mailman/archives/private/client-list/ 
>index.html'
>Jun 18 19:25:36 2007 (10816) Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in  
>_oneloop
>     self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in  
>_onefile
>     keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Queue/ArchRunner.py", line 73, in  
>_dispose
>     mlist.ArchiveMail(msg)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 216,  
>in ArchiveMail
>     h.close()
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 313,  
>in close
>     self.write_TOC()
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line  
>1048, in write_TOC
>     toc = open(os.path.join(self.basedir, 'index.html'), 'w')
>IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/private/var/mailman/archives/ 
>private/client-list/index.html'
>
>Jun 18 19:25:36 2007 (10816) SHUNTING: 1182219935.3121431 
>+1f5997710b510ce2af03c4b18e68bca2a9a7cf5d
>Jun 18 19:25:53 2007 (10819) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 1]  
>Operation not permitted: '/private/var/mailman/archives/public/client- 
>list'
>Jun 18 19:25:53 2007 (10819) Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in  
>_oneloop
>     self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in  
>_onefile
>     keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line  
>133, in _dispose
>     mlist.Save()
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 529, in Save
>     self.CheckHTMLArchiveDir()
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 235,  
>in CheckHTMLArchiveDir
>     breaklink(pubdir)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 55,  
>in breaklink
>     os.unlink(link)
>OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/private/var/mailman/ 
>archives/public/client-list'
>
>Jun 18 19:25:53 2007 (10819) SHUNTING: 1182219952.298547 
>+a97ef5907aa7d67744b62971add1b089b4336b32
>Jun 18 19:25:53 2007 (10816) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 13]  
>Permission denied: '/private/var/mailman/archives/private/client-list/ 
>index.html'
>Jun 18 19:25:53 2007 (10816) Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in  
>_oneloop
>     self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in  
>_onefile
>     keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Queue/ArchRunner.py", line 73, in  
>_dispose
>     mlist.ArchiveMail(msg)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 216,  
>in ArchiveMail
>     h.close()
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 313,  
>in close
>     self.write_TOC()
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line  
>1048, in write_TOC
>     toc = open(os.path.join(self.basedir, 'index.html'), 'w')
>IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/private/var/mailman/archives/ 
>private/client-list/index.html'
>
>Jun 18 19:25:53 2007 (10816) SHUNTING: 1182219952.298547 
>+542a885011bac44ed8f869a06f7c64ebe07acaf9
>Jun 18 19:27:07 2007 (10819) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 1]  
>Operation not permitted: '/private/var/mailman/archives/public/client- 
>list'
>Jun 18 19:27:07 2007 (10819) Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in  
>_oneloop
>     self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in  
>_onefile
>     keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line  
>133, in _dispose
>     mlist.Save()
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 529, in Save
>     self.CheckHTMLArchiveDir()
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 235,  
>in CheckHTMLArchiveDir
>     breaklink(pubdir)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 55,  
>in breaklink
>     os.unlink(link)
>OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/private/var/mailman/ 
>archives/public/client-list'
>
>Jun 18 19:27:07 2007 (10819) SHUNTING: 1182220026.5520279 
>+b4a5f31a903a595b30aad7c8b13e6b37e44b3b25
>Jun 18 19:27:07 2007 (10816) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 13]  
>Permission denied: '/private/var/mailman/archives/private/client-list/ 
>index.html'
>Jun 18 19:27:07 2007 (10816) Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in  
>_oneloop
>     self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in  
>_onefile
>     keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Queue/ArchRunner.py", line 73, in  
>_dispose
>     mlist.ArchiveMail(msg)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 216,  
>in ArchiveMail
>     h.close()
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 313,  
>in close
>     self.write_TOC()
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line  
>1048, in write_TOC
>     toc = open(os.path.join(self.basedir, 'index.html'), 'w')
>IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/private/var/mailman/archives/ 
>private/client-list/index.html'
>
>Jun 18 19:27:07 2007 (10816) SHUNTING: 1182220026.5520279 
>+eddee6c8cd6b87769edeaa60fe9c23f1e3e19640
>
>
>
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San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan

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