[Mailman-Users] What happened to my archive? Why isn't the archive process running?

[TGPlatt, WebMaster]

You said:

> Assuming mailman's home directory is NOT /usr/local/mailman and
> assuming that prefix, and var_prefix are /usr/local/mailman, mailman's
> home directory is irrelevant.

But mailman's home directory (where all its programs, scripts, archives and
discussion lists are stored) IS /usr/local/mailman and according to my
Mailman/Defaults.py, both var_prefix and prefix are also /user/local/mailman

PREFIX          = '/usr/local/mailman'
VAR_PREFIX      = '/usr/local/mailman'

How does that change things?

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:mark at msapiro.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 5:50 PM
To: webwitchcraft at webwitchcraft.com; mailman-users at python.org
Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] What happened to my archive? Why isn't the
archive process running?

TGPlatt, WebMaster wrote:
>
>Now can we talk about the proper ownership of all the mailman files both IN
>/usr/local/mailman directory structure and in the UserAccount/mailman
>directory as well? Shouldn't all (or most of) these files be owned by
>mailman / mailman? Is that also true in the /archives/private/mylist
>directory? What about over in the /home/mylist/www directory? Who should
own
>the mailman directory there?
>
>I have run bin/check_perms several times but it doesn't complain about any
>problems. 


check_perms should complain about ownership and permission problems.

Assuming mailman's home directory is NOT /usr/local/mailman and
assuming that prefix, and var_prefix are /usr/local/mailman, mailman's
home directory is irrelevant.

In general everything from /usr/local/mailman on down should be group
mailman (owner doesn't matter) and directories need to be g+rws and
files g+rw.

See the post at
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2008-October/063748.html>.
 
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