[Mailman-Developers] [Fwd: Re: [Mailman-Users] Messages silently disappearing]

[Greg Stein]

Screwed up privs seems to happen a lot. Sure, maybe the person installed
improperly. But if it is simply permissions, then it should be easily
rectifiable.

Wasn't there a script or something to check the permissions? I couldn't
find it. Would be nice to have one.

Regardless, I might recommend a web page or other document that has a
detailed listing of owner/group/privs for the relevant directories and
files.

thx
-g

Wes Morriston wrote:
> 
> I did as you suggested.  All the directories in /home/mailman are now
> owned by mailman and all have the g+s setting.  I took the +s off of
> /usr/bin/python.  The result?  Messages silently disappear as before.
> Put the +s back on python, and they don't disappear.
> 
> Something clearly has the wrong ownership and/or permissions, but I just
> don't know what!
> 
> Frustrated,
> 
> Wes
> 
> Christopher Lindsey wrote:
> >
> > >    drwxrwsr-x   2 root  mailman       512 Feb  9 17:37 data
> > >
> > > That is exactly how mailman installed itself.  (I was root when I did
> > > the install.)
> >
> > Yes, I had the same problem.
> >
> > > I then did a
> > >
> > >    chown -R mailman .
> > >
> > > in /home/mailman.
> >
> > This will probably unset the g+s setting on all directories.  You
> > need to set it back:
> >
> >    cd ~mailman
> >    chown -R mailman.mailman .
> >    find . -type d -exec chmod g+s {} \;
> >
> > > The following, I discovered, does cause the messages to be delivered.
> > >
> > >    chmod +s /usr/bin/python
> > >
> > > I hope it is not too dangerous to run python as root.
> >
> > Ummm, I would undo that.
> >
> > Chris
> >
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