[Mailman-Users] two questions (fwd)

[Phil Voris]

> 1) looks like you are either missing the directory structure for archive:
>   ~mailman/archives
>                     ../private
>                     ../public 
> or the rights are such that Mailman cannot access them

I don't think so.  Everything's pretty much accessible to mailman group 
and user.  

> 2) If you want Mailman to add the routes when you run "newlist -o ..." then 
> it needs write access to the file.  Otherwise, you can simply add the entries 
> yourself everytime you add a new list.

I've been updating the aliases manually - the errors come when I try to
send mail.  As far as I can tell, there's only one setup that works: 
- a complete copy of the /etc/postfix/aliases file in /home/mailman 
- every time I update the site aliases, I have the update the
/home/mailman/aliases file and run postalias on it. 
- the following in /etc/postfix/main.cf:

alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases
alias_maps = hash:/home/mailman/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases


If I use the convention:
alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases, hash:/home/mailman/aliases
I get a postfix error.
If I try to just keep mailman aliases in the /home/mailman/aliases file, I 
get the error.
If I chgrp mailman /etc/postfix/aliases and open up the w perms in order 
to try to centralize things, I get the error.

The error is:

                        The Postfix program

<list.foo at nekophile.com>: Command died with status 2:
    "/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post list.foo". Command output: 
Failure to
    exec script. WANTED gid 41, GOT gid 99.  (Reconfigure to take 99?)


(41 = mailman)


> 
>  --- Original Message: Sunday 17 March 2002 03:50 pm ---
> > Hi, I use v 2.08 and have a couple questions:
> >
> > 1] I get the following cron error all the time, but I don't know python
> > and therefore cannot assess the problem.  What does it mean?
> >
> >
> > Subject: Cron <mailman at twiggy> /usr/bin/python -S
> >     /home/mailman/cron/senddigests
> >
> > Traceback (innermost last):
> >   File "/home/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 65, in ?
> >     main()
> >   File "/home/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 42, in main
> >     send_list_digest(mlist)
> >   File "/home/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 59, in send_list_digest
> >     mlist.Save()
> >   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 861, in Save
> >     self.CheckHTMLArchiveDir()
> >   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 256, in
> > CheckHTMLArchiveDir
> >     makelink(privdir, pubdir)
> >   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 42, in makelink
> >     os.symlink(old, new)
> > OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
> >
> >
> > 2] I use postfix and have added the extra aliases file to make things
> > work.  However, I don't understand why this file needs to writeable by
> > mailman.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Phil
> >
> >
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