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

[Mark Sapiro]

TGPlatt, WebMaster wrote:

>It looks to me like check_perms has a hole in it, Mark. If you take a close
>look at the error I've been getting repeatedly since early July (see below),
>you'll see it consistently occurs on the index.html table in the
>/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/mylist directory. Here are the
>permissions on that file:
>
>12 -rw-r--r--  1 mailman mailman   11452 Oct 20 07:01 index.html
>
>Please note that the permissions on that file are 644 and not 664. I just
>ran check_perms on this account. It reported "No Problems Found". Yet when
>Archrunner runs and tries to open that file to replace it, it reports a
>permissions error for that file. In short, check_perms reports those 644
>permissions are just fine while you're telling me they should be 664 and
>ARCHrunner complains they're NOT fine. This suggests to me check_perms isn't
>doing its job very well.


This appears to be a problem with check_perms. You are correct that it
isn't doing its job very well.

There are a lot of files it doesn't check, and at least some of those
should be checked. I'll look into fixing that. Thanks for pointing it
out.

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