[Mailman-Users] "create a new list" web interface
Jewel
jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu
Sat Nov 15 00:40:18 CET 2008
Everything is working now! I am able to create a list via the
interface. I read a thread where someone disabled SELinux, then
re-enabled it, and then rebooted and it worked for them. Sure enough it
worked for me too. Not sure why. I am still wanting to know about the
aliases though.
Thanks!
jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu wrote:
> By diabling SELinux altogether it worked. My only question is regarding
> what you said earlier, the working was a bit confusing for me:
>
>
>>> Then you need to remove any mailman aliases from /etc/aliases or
>>> whereever they were before if not
>>>
>> /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases, and
>>
>>> run 'postalias /etc/aliases' (or wherever to update the
>>>
>> corresponding> .db file.
>>
>
> I have alias_maps pointing to both /etc/aliases ad
> /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases. Currently both alias files contain all
> of my lists.
> So do I need to remove the "mailman" instance from the /etc/aliases file
> or all lists? If I create a new list using the web interface it will
> should update both aliases or just the data/aliases? I apologize I am
> not understanding.
>
> Jewel
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>
> Date: Friday, November 14, 2008 5:04 pm
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] "create a new list" web interface
> To: jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu
> Cc: Mail List - Mailman <mailman-users at python.org>
>
>
>> jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu wrote:
>>
>>
>>> My maillog shows:
>>>
>>> Nov 14 16:43:27 lists postfix/smtp[18085]: 60CE58C0013:
>>> to=<jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu>,
>>> relay=relay.washburnlaw.edu[198.252.9.211]:25, delay=0.18,
>>> delays=0.1/0.02/0.05/0.02, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 Message
>>>
>> accepted>for delivery)
>>
>>> Nov 14 16:43:27 lists postfix/qmgr[1858]: 60CE58C0013: removed
>>>
>> That is some message to you. What does the log show for a message
>> to a
>> list?
>>
>>
>>> When I run genaliases I recieve the following error:
>>>
>>> postalias: fatal: open /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases.db:
>>>
>> Permission denied
>>
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> File "./genaliases", line 116, in ?
>>> main()
>>> File "./genaliases", line 106, in main
>>> MTA.create(mlist, nolock=True, quiet=quiet)
>>> File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 232, in
>>>
>> create> _update_maps()
>>
>>> File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 53, in
>>>
>> _update_maps> raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr)
>>
>>> RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias
>>> /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted)
>>>
>>> When I disable my SELinux security I am able to run the genaliases
>>> command successfully but only as root. I only create a few lists a
>>>
>> year>so getting this feature is not a high priority but would be
>> nice. I
>>
>>> also must admit I don't know what you mean by "Postfix virtual
>>>
>> domain"
>>
>> Then you probably don't need to worry about "Postfix virtual domain".
>>
>> The permissions on Mailman's aliases should look like
>>
>> -rw-rw---- 1 mark mailman 7193 Sep 7 07:54 aliases
>> -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 12288 Sep 7 07:54 aliases.db
>>
>> The owner of 'aliases' (mark in this case, maybe root in yours)
>> doesn'tmatter, but both files need to be group mailman and
>> aliases.db needs
>> to be owned by whatever user has a primary group equal to what the
>> mail wrapper expects.
>>
>> I don't know SELinux so I can't help with how you might augment the
>> security policy to allow this to work.
>>
>> (since I already wrote the above, here it is)
>>
>> Jewel wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Ok, I stand corrected. Mail is working fine!
>>>
>>> My problem is issuing the genaliases command. If it only works
>>>
>> for root
>>
>>> when SELinux is off it should work for the user mailman. I have also
>>> added the hash:/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases to my alias_maps in
>>> /etc/postfix/main.cf
>>>
>> If you want web create to work, the apache user running with effective
>> GID of Mailman's group has to be able to write these files.
>>
>> --
>> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers,
>> San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
>>
>>
>>
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