[Mailman-Users] check_perms failing: No such file or directory:'/var/lib/mailman/archives/public/maillist'

[Mark Sapiro]

admin2 wrote:
>
>I am not clear why check_perms are failing.  The error claims 
>'/var/lib/mailman/archives/public/maillist' directory does not exist. 
>but an 'ls' reveals it does.
>root at enabled:/var/lib/mailman/bin# ls -l 
>/var/lib/mailman/archives/public/maillist
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 80 mailman 44 Dec 13  2005 
>/var/lib/mailman/archives/public/maillist -> 
>/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/maillist


/var/lib/mailman/archives/public/maillist is a symlink possibly left
over from some other install or ???.

In any case it points to /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/maillist -
not to /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/maillist

Either Mailman is mis-configured with PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_FILE_DIR naming
the wrong path, although it's hard to see how that wouldn't create
other havoc, or the symlink is just wrong and should be removed.


>root at enabled:/var/lib/mailman/bin# ls -l 
>/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/maillist
>total 456
>drwxrwsr-x  2 mailman list   4096 Jan  1  2006 2005-December
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman list  27928 Jan  1  2006 2005-December.txt
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman list  10038 Jan  2  2006 2005-December.txt.gz
>drwxrwsr-x  2 mailman list   4096 Apr  5  2006 2006-April
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman list    604 Apr  5  2006 2006-April.txt
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman list    464 Apr  6  2006 2006-April.txt.gz
>drwxrwsr-x  2 mailman list   4096 Aug  8  2006 2006-August
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman list   4084 Aug  8  2006 2006-August.txt
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman list   2218 Aug  9  2006 2006-August.txt.gz
>drwxrwsr-x  2 mailman list   4096 Feb 28  2006 2006-February
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman list 160434 Feb 28  2006 2006-February.txt
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman list  48348 Mar  1  2006 2006-February.txt.gz
>drwxrwsr-x  2 mailman list   4096 Jan 18  2006 2006-January
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman list  55258 Jan 18  2006 2006-January.txt
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman list  19536 Jan 19  2006 2006-January.txt.gz
>drwxrwsr-x  2 mailman list   4096 Jun 26  2006 2006-June
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman list   7472 Jun 26  2006 2006-June.txt
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman list   3327 Jun 27  2006 2006-June.txt.gz
>drwxrwsr-x  2 mailman list   4096 Mar 20  2006 2006-March
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman list  27910 Mar 20  2006 2006-March.txt
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman list   7689 Mar 21  2006 2006-March.txt.gz
>drwxrwsr-x  2 mailman list   4096 May  2  2006 2006-May
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman list   6626 May  2  2006 2006-May.txt
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman list   3241 May  3  2006 2006-May.txt.gz
>drwxrwsr-x 34 mailman list   4096 Jun 26  2006 attachments
>drwxrws---  2 mailman list   4096 Aug  8  2006 database
>-rw-r--r--  1 mailman list   4013 Aug  8  2006 index.html
>-rw-r-----  1 mailman list    992 Aug  8  2006 pipermail.pck

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