[Mailman-Users] Archives

[Mark Sapiro]

Young, Darren wrote:
>
>There's a lot in there so I attached it. Not sure if this list allows
>attachments but I'll try here anyways.


The text/plain attachment was allowed, but the message was too big. I
trimmed the attachment leaving only a few relevant parts. See my
comments inline and at the end.



>/usr/local/mailman/archives/:
>total 36
>drwxrws--x 813 mailman mailman 32768 Jan 21 16:01 private
>drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman mailman  4096 Jan 20 12:55 public
>
>/usr/local/mailman/archives/private:
>total 3256
>drwxrwsr-x 2 root    mailman  4096 Jan  7 15:11 3000001_win2010
>drwxrwsr-x 2 root    mailman  4096 Nov 24 10:01 3000001_win2010.mbox


There were many lists as above.


>[...]
>drwxrwsr-x 2 root    mailman  4096 Jan 20 12:26 perl-ad-manager-users
>drwxrwsr-x 2 root    mailman  4096 Jan 20 12:26 perl-ad-manager-users.mbox


And I think this is the list of interest.


>[...]
>
>/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/3000001_win2010:
>total 0
>
>/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/3000001_win2010.mbox:
>total 0
>


Most lists are like this with no files.


>[...]
>
>/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/career-wknd:
>total 4
>-rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 500 Jan 20 12:25 index.html
>
>/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/career-wknd.mbox:
>total 0
>


But a few like the above have the default index.html


>[...]
>
>/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/mailman:
>total 8
>drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4096 Jan  7 15:11 2009-June
>drwxrws--- 2 mailman mailman 4096 Jan  7 15:11 database
>
>/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/mailman/2009-June:
>total 0
>
>/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/mailman/database:
>total 0
>
>/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/mailman.mbox:
>total 0


And here, it liiks like at one time the mailman list actually had an
archived message, but it's gone.


>[...]
>
>/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/perl-ad-manager-users:
>total 4
>-rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 531 Jan 20 12:26 index.html
>
>/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/perl-ad-manager-users.mbox:
>total 0
>

And our list has the default index.html


>[...]
>
>/usr/local/mailman/archives/public:
>total 0


And there are no symlinks in archives/public.


Here's what I see - most lists do not have even the default 'empty'
index.html. For those few that do, the list's all seem to have been
created on or after Jan 20. Thus, I think issue # 1 is there is some
process that runs periodically (manually or via cron) that removes all
files or all files older than x from the archives/private/ directory.

Issue #2 is once again an obvious thing to have checked, but I think
archiving must be disabled in mm_cfg.py with

ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX = -1

This is the only thing that explains the lack of symlink(s) in
archives/public for lists with public archives.

-- 
Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan