[Mailman-Users] Mailman Archives page not updating

[Mark Sapiro]

LexIcon wrote:
>
>Ok, so I ran...
>
>chown -hR mailman private/
>
>... and changed the owner of everything in there to the mailman user. I 
>then ran...



What you really want is

chgrp -R mailman private/


>./unshunt
>
>... which took a long time to process, and then I ran...
>
>./arch listname
>
>... which did not seem to have resolved the issue, so I ran...
>
>[root at domain bin]# ./arch --wipe listname 
>/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox
>
>... which resulted in ...
>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "./arch", line 200, in ?
>    main()
>  File "./arch", line 177, in main
>    shutil.rmtree(mlist.archive_dir())
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/shutil.py", line 155, in rmtree
>    onerror(os.listdir, path, sys.exc_info())
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/shutil.py", line 153, in rmtree
>    names = os.listdir(path)
>OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
>'/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/listname'


So there are now no 'listname' archives at all as they were probably
removed by a prior "bin/arch --wipe".


>... and I checked the error logs again and found...
>
>Feb 20 21:37:10 2010 (9826) Archive file access failure:
>        /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox 
>[Errno 13] Permission denied: 
>'/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox'
>Feb 20 21:37:10 2010 (9826) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 13] 
>Permission denied: 
>'/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox'
>Feb 20 21:37:10 2010 (9826) Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 112, in _oneloop
>    self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 170, in _onefile
>    keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/ArchRunner.py", line 73, in _dispose
>    mlist.ArchiveMail(msg)
>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 200, in 
>ArchiveMail
>    self.__archive_to_mbox(msg)
>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 169, in 
>__archive_to_mbox
>    mbox = self.__archive_file(afn)
>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 157, in 
>__archive_file
>    return Mailbox.Mailbox(open(afn, 'a+'))
>IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
>'/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox'
>
>Feb 20 21:37:10 2010 (9826) SHUNTING: 
>1266730628.7653761+286a6674cf078ace752aad7c7525dadae0f85338


So fix the group and permissions on
/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/listname.mbox and
/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox

chgrp -R mailman /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/listname.mbox

chmod 2775 /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/listname.mbox

chmod 0664 /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox


Then run unshunt again and this time check for errors and reshunted
messages before continuing.

Then run "bin/arch --wipe listname"

It would be a good idea to stop mailman  before doing all this, and
then start it when done.

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