[Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.2 and htdig again.

[Richard Barrett]

Glenn

Sorry not to respond before but I just got back from a week away and 
found your post to mailman-users list.

As you look to be using https scheme for accessing your list archives, 
I think you have tripped over a problem that htdig-2.1.2-0.4.patch 
already fixes. The INSTALL.htdig-mm for that version of the patch says:

<quote>
htdig-2.1.2-0.4.patch - latest version:

     1. corrected error in mmsearch.py and remote_mmsearch. This caused a
        problem if https was being used for accessing the archives as a
        pattern match to extract the list name was misused.
</quote>

The full text is in the INSTALL.htdig-mm file installed by the patch 
and here:

http://www.openinfo.co.uk/mailman/patches/444884/install.html#history

Also check the which patches you are applying and the order of 
application, although I do not think this is causing the problem you 
are reporting. See the following, which just reiterate what is in the 
INSTALL.htdig-mm installed by the latest version of patch #444884:

http://www.openinfo.co.uk/mailman/patches/444884/index.html and

http://www.openinfo.co.uk/mailman/patches/444884/install.html#prereq

Some of the pre-requisites are not mandatory but do fix real if not 
catastrophic problems and have been added to the CVS for next stable MM 
release.

Let me know if the later htdig integration patch doesn't fix your 
problem.

Richard

On Wed Sep  3 2003, Glenn Sieb said:

<quote>
Ok. I've finally got some time (between work and things going on with my
parents lately) to try and fix this problem.

I've moved my old mailman directory. I've reconfigured and recompiled
2.1.2 with the following patches (in order):

indexing-2.1.2-0.1.patch
htdig-2.1.2-0.3.patch
templates-2.1.2-0.1.patch

did a bare ./configure
did a make install

Created the mailman site list

Created a site password

Downloaded & installed postfix-to-mailman-2.1.py

Restarted postfix, launched mailmanctl, sent test message to new list,
test3 at lists.wingfoot.org.

Message was added to archive. I go to archive--I can read it fine... I
even went at this point and ran /usr/local/bin/python -S
/usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_htdig to be sure things were built... 
then
went to search the archive.

I get this:
htdig Archives Access Failure
The requested list cannot be accessed. test3:test3.htsearch

If you want to make another attempt to access a list archive then go via
the list users information page.

If this problem persists then please e-mail the following information to
the mailman at lists.wingfoot.org:

     https://www.wingfoot.org/pipermail/test3/
     /mailman/mmsearch/test3

In /usr/local/mailman/logs/error:

Sep 03 18:40:36 2003 (29336) htsearch for list: test3.htsearch, cause:
list, detail: test3:test3.htsearch
Sep 03 18:42:00 2003 (29565) htsearch for list: test3.htsearch, cause:
list, detail: test3:test3.htsearch

/usr/local/mailman/archives 614 $ ls -l
total 1
drwxrwsr-x  2 root  mailman  512 Sep  3 18:40 htdig
drwxrws--x  4 root  mailman  512 Sep  3 18:35 private
drwxrwsr-x  2 root  mailman  512 Sep  3 18:35 public

/usr/local/mailman/archives/htdig 617 $ ls -l
total 1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 mailman  mailman  58 Sep  3 18:40 test3.conf ->
/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/test3/htdig/test3.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  1 mailman  mailman  67 Sep  3 18:40 test3.htsearch.conf ->
/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/test3/htdig/test3.htsearch.conf


/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/test3/htdig 619 $ ls -l
total 1
-rw-rw-r--  1 root     mailman  3072 Sep  3 18:41 db.docdb
-rw-rw-r--  1 root     mailman  2048 Sep  3 18:41 db.docs.index
-rw-rw-r--  1 root     mailman   482 Sep  3 18:41 db.wordlist
-rw-rw-r--  1 root     mailman  2048 Sep  3 18:41 db.words.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 root     mailman     0 Sep  3 18:41 rundig_last_run
-rw-rw-rw-  1 mailman  mailman  3622 Sep  3 18:40 test3.conf
-rw-rw-rw-  1 mailman  mailman  3625 Sep  3 18:40 test3.htsearch.conf

Attached are my test3.conf and test3.htsearch.conf files

I have temporarily killed mailman until I get this resolved. If there 
are
any other files I'm missing, or anything else that I can do to help get
this debugged, please let me know.

As always, thank you all for your help, in advance.

Thanks,
Glenn
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Richard Barrett                               http://www.openinfo.co.uk