[Mailman-Users] No mbox / No Archives

[Michael J McCafferty]

Mark,
         Thanks for the rapid reply.
         I am not using SELinux (doesn't come in RHEL3 or CentOS 3.x)
         The lists were recovered from only partial backups (the customer 
only provided the /var/mailman/lists directory, and nothing else.) So, if 
the place for the mbox files were created only during list creation, that 
could account for it. The error log does indicate that the mbox file or 
directory is missing. I should have looked there (slaps forehead).
         I have created the directories and run check_perms -f  to make 
sure it's all ok. now all I gotta do is wait for some posts to the lists 
(they are not my lists) to see if it works.

Thanks !!!
Mike

At 05:11 PM 7/31/2005 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>Michael J McCafferty wrote:
>
> >       I am using Mailman 2.1.5 with Postfix on CentOS 3.5 (RHEL 3). My 
> problem
> >is that I have no archives. They are not being created.
> >
> >       Each list is set to archive, and to make the archives public. I 
> do have
> >Apache set to follow symlinks.  I also do not have any mbox directories or
> >files being kept. I don't know why. I figure that I have no archives
> >because I have no mboxes.  I have checked the permissions (check_perms).
> >
> >       Any thoughts on how to remedy or what to check next ?
>
>Are you using SELinux? There might be a security policy issue.
>
>Normally, the list creation process creates the
>archives/private/listname/listname.mbox/ directory and the first
>archived message creates the
>archives/private/listname/listname.mbox/listname.mbox file. It seems
>that you have neither the directory or file for your lists. If you
>create the directories by hand (in the 'mailman' group and group
>writable and searchable and normally setgid although I don't think
>that setgid is really necessary), that may allow messages to be
>archived, but it doesn't answer the question of why the directories
>weren't created in the first place.
>
>There may be relevant messages in Mailman's 'error' log. Also, the
>unarchived posts may be in the shunt queue such that creating the
>directories and running bin/unshunt will archive those posts.
>
>--
>Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
>San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan