[Mailman-Users] permission issue

[Mark Sapiro]

On 01/14/2016 12:06 PM, Matt Newville wrote:

> 
> Jan 14 11:35:01 2016 (9055) Archive file access failure:
>         /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/test1.mbox/test1.mbox [Errno 13]
> Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/test1.mbox/test1.mbox'
> Jan 14 11:35:01 2016 (9055) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 13]
> Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/test1.mbox/test1.mbox'
> Jan 14 11:35:01 2016 (9055) Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 119, in _oneloop
>     self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 190, 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/test1.mbox/test1.mbox'
> 
> Jan 14 11:35:01 2016 (9055) SHUNTING:
> 1452792899.410995+4ddf5a7718ff13c171a78e27a2caaf5429312510


So ArchRunner can't write to
/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/test1.mbox/test1.mbox.


> Apache does load mod_suexec.so, but (as far as I can tell) it's not used
> anywhere.


This would only affect web accesses in any case.


> I've tried making the permissions on the files and directories
> /var/lib/mailman/  very liberal, but still see problems either with the
> mbox file or (from other, existing lists that have been migrated) with
> 'config.pck.tmp.SERVERNAME...', and the mail is not even sent.


What are the owner, group and mode on every directory and the file in
the path /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/test1.mbox/test1.mbox and
every directory in the path /var/lib/mailman/lists/listname and the
config.pck* files for the other list names with config.pck.* problems?

And is ArchRunner and the other runners running as the 'mailman' user.


> Any suggestions on what to try or how to better diagnose the problem?   Is
> there a known issue with the fedora packages that suggest using a source
> build of Mailman or Apache?


I'm not aware of anything specific.

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