[Mailman-Users] 64 bit encoding

[Ruben Safir]

On 11/05/2015 12:24 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> On 11/05/2015 08:41 AM, Ruben Safir wrote:
>>
>> Which file am I patching?  Is this a normal setup?  I pulled it from
>> opensuse.
>>
>>
>> ruben at www:~> locate Mailman/Message.py
>> /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Message.py
>> /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Message.pyc
> 
> The above two are probably what you want.
> /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Message.py is the source to patch. After you
> apply the patch and restart Mailman, Python will automatically detect
> that the .py is newer and recompile it into the .pyc.
> 
> 
>> /usr/local/apache/conf/mailman/Mailman/Message.py
>> /usr/local/apache/conf/mailman/Mailman/Message.pyc
> 

ohh.

Maybe I did that because I didn't want my cgi-bin directory outside of
my apache trunk.  It is odd habit I picked up in the last 30 years is
that I want my webservers restricted to the apache directory tree which
is /usr/local/apache/

It didn't occur to be that mailing system binary and script libraries
would also end up in the apache trunk.


<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin ruben at mrbrklyn.com
    DocumentRoot "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/nylxs"
    ScriptAlias     /mailman/
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/mailman/cgi-bin/
    Alias           /mailmanicons/  /usr/local/apache/htdocs/mailman/icons/
    Alias           /pipermail/
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/mailman/archives/public/
    ServerName www.nylxs.com
    DirectoryIndex index.html
    PerlModule Embperl
    Embperl_UseEnv        on
    ErrorLog logs/nylxs_error_log
    CustomLog logs/nylxs_access_log common
    <Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/nylxs>
           Options     Indexes ExecCGI
           DirectoryIndex index.html
           <Files *.html>
           SetHandler perl-script
#          PerlResponseHandler URL_BLOCK
           PerlHandler Embperl
           </Files>
           AllowOverride None
           Order allow,deny
           Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName   lists.mrbrklyn.com
        DocumentRoot "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/mailman/"
        ScriptAlias     /mailman/
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/mailman/cgi-bin/
        Alias           /mailmanicons/
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/mailman/icons/
        Alias           /pipermail/
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/mailman/archives/public/


"
        ErrorLog     logs/mailman_error_log
        TransferLog  logs/mailman_access_log
        <Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/mailman/cgi-bin>
         order allow,deny
         allow from all
        </Directory>

        <Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/mailman/icons>
                order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

        <Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/mailman/archives/>
                Options +FollowSymLinks
                order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

</VirtualHost>


> This is very strange. I've never seen anything like it. My best guess is
> that for some  reason, the openSUSE package installs a separate Mailman/
> directory for use by the web server. If that is the case, this one
> doesn't need to be patched because the patch doesn't affect anything in
> the web UI.
> 
> To be sure, I'd need to see the apache configuration, the MTA
> configuration and the contents of the directories.
> 
> I did quickly look at
> <https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:Leap:42.1/mailman/mailman-apache2.conf?expand=1>,
> <https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/server:mail/mailman/mailman-apache2.conf?expand=1>,
> etc. and they all refer to /usr/lib/mailman so I have no idea what
> /usr/local/apache/conf/mailman/ is about.
> 
> The bottom line is the Message.py you need to patch is the one that's
> imported by the qrunners, IncomingRunner and OutgoingRunner in
> particular.  Is there even a
> /usr/local/apache/conf/mailman/Mailman/Queue/ directory at all?
> 
> If the two Message.py files are the same, it wouldn't hurt to patch both.
>