[Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

[Steven Jones]

Hi,

Service mailman restart

Here is the startup script,

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#!/bin/sh
#
# mailman    This shell script starts and stops GNU Mailman.
#
# Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
#
# Copy this file to /etc/init.d/ (or /etc/rc.d/init.d/ depending on
# your system) and activate it as such:
#
# On Debian, type "update-rc.d mailman defaults"
# On RedHat, and derivatives, install with "chkconfig --add mailman"
#
# chkconfig: - 98 12
# description: Mailman is the GNU Mailing List Manager, a program that \
#              manages electronic mail discussion groups.  For more \
#              on GNU Mailman see http://www.list.org
# processname: mailmanctl
# config: /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py
# pidfile: /var/run/mailman/master-qrunner.pid
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: mailman
# Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs $network $named
# Should-Start: httpd
# Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Default-Stop: 0 1 3 4 5 6
# Short-Description: start and stop Mailman
# Description: Mailman is the GNU mailing list manager.
### END INIT INFO

MAILMANHOME=/usr/lib/mailman
MAILMANCTL=$MAILMANHOME/bin/mailmanctl

# We used to install the mailman cron jobs when the mailman rpm was
# installed, irrespective of whether mailman was actually being
# run. Although the cron jobs didn't create any problems if someone
# wasn't running mailman some users complained about the cron log file
# filling up, resource usage, and power consumption since systems
# wouldn't really idle. It really only makes sense to run the mailman
# cron jobs if the mailman service is turned on and not just merely
# having the rpm installed. This init.d script is an obvious place to
# install or remove the cron jobs based on the service being enabled
# or not.

SRC_CRON_SCRIPT=$MAILMANHOME/cron/crontab.in
DST_CRON_SCRIPT=/etc/cron.d/mailman

function InstallCron()
{
    install -m644 -o root -g root $SRC_CRON_SCRIPT $DST_CRON_SCRIPT
}

function RemoveCron()
{
cat > $DST_CRON_SCRIPT <<EOF
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#
# Contents of this file managed by /etc/init.d/mailman
# Master copy is /usr/lib/mailman/cron/crontab.in
# Consult that file for documentation
EOF
}

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

RETVAL=0
prog="mailman"

function start()
{
    echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
    mailman-update-cfg
    daemon $MAILMANCTL -s -q start
    RETVAL=$?
    if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ]
    then
        touch /var/lock/subsys/$prog
        InstallCron
    else
        RETVAL=6
    fi
    echo
    return $RETVAL
}

function stop()
{
if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/$prog ]
    then
    echo -n $"Shutting down $prog: "
    mailman-update-cfg
    daemon $MAILMANCTL -q stop
    RETVAL=$?
    if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ]
    then
        rm -f /var/lock/subsys/$prog
        RemoveCron
    fi
    echo
    else
    echo $"$prog already stopped."
    RETVAL=0
    fi
    return $RETVAL
}

function restart()
{
    stop
    start
    RETVAL=$?
    return $RETVAL
}

case "$1" in
'start')
    start
    RETVAL=$?
    ;;

'stop')
    stop
    RETVAL=$?
    ;;

'restart'|'force-reload')
    restart
    RETVAL=$?
    ;;

'condrestart'|'try-restart')
    $MAILMANCTL -q -u status
    retval=$?
    if [ $retval -eq 0 ]
    then
        restart
       RETVAL=$?
    fi
    ;;

'status')
    output=$($MAILMANCTL -u status)
    RETVAL=$?
    if [ $RETVAL -eq 3 -a -f /var/lock/subsys/$prog ]
    then
        echo $"$prog dead but subsys locked"
        RETVAL=2
    else
        echo $output
    fi
    ;;

*)
    echo $"Usage: $prog {start|stop|restart|force-reload|condrestart|try-restart|status}"
    RETVAL=2
    ;;

esac
exit $RETVAL
=========================

regards










________________________________________
From: Mark Sapiro [mark at msapiro.net]
Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 12:03 p.m.
To: Steven Jones
Cc: mailman-users at python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

On 6/2/2011 4:54 PM, Steven Jones wrote:
> -rw-rw----. 1 mailman mailman   3902 Jun  2 12:00  /var/lib/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck

So it looks like the 'mailman' user can access the config.pck.

So, how are you starting Mailman. Are you running

 /var/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl start

Or something like

 service mailman start

If the latter, what does the /etc/init.d/mailman script do?

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