[Mailman-Users] permission problem saving attachments to archives

[kristina clair]

Oops!  I meant to mention in my last email that the "attachment" that
mailman is trying to save is the email which is in html format.  I'm
not sure if  that helps at all...

Kristina

On 3/30/06, kristina clair <kclair at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/29/06, Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net> wrote:
> > kristina clair
> >
> > >On 3/28/06, Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >> (what
> > >> does 'ls -lR /home/mailman/archives/private/membership/attachments'
> > >> show?)
> > >
> > ># ls -lR /home/mailman/archives/private/membership/attachments
> > >/home/mailman/archives/private/membership/attachments:
> > >total 0
> >
> >
> > This is puzzling. Something is not right about this. Possibly the full
> > traceback will contradict me, but I think that Scrubber is in it's
> > save_attachment() function and is trying to lock the attachment
> > directory
> > (/home/mailman/archives/private/membership/attachments/20060301/cf7df1b6/
> > in this case) in order to keep other processes out while it computes a
> > unique file name to save the attachment. It is the lock.lock() call in
> > Scrubber that trys to create
> > /home/mailman/archives/private/membership/attachments/20060301/cf7df1b6/attachments.lock.server.com.23421.174.
> > However, well before this, Scrubber has called its makedirs() function
> > to create as necessary all the directories in
> > /home/mailman/archives/private/membership/attachments/20060301/cf7df1b6/,
> > and this apparently succeeded yet the directories 20060301/ and
> > 20060301/cf7df1b6/ (and even the attachments/ directory initially)
> > don't exist.
> >
> > Do these directories exist somewhere else?
>
> I did a find for cf7df1b6 and didn't find it anywhere.
>
> Here is the full traceback from the error log:
>
> Mar 29 19:05:37 2006 (23421) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 13] Permission
> denied: '/home/mailman/archives/private/membership/attachments/20060301/cf7df1
> b6/attachments.lock.sparks.serve.com.23421.369'
> Mar 29 19:05:37 2006 (23421) Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in _oneloop
>     self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in _onefile
>     keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 130, in _dispose
>     more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline)
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153, in _dopipeli
> ne
>     sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 91, in process
>     send_digests(mlist, mboxfp)
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 132, in send_digests
>     send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp)
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 306, in send_i18n_di
> gests
>     msg = scrubber(mlist, msg)
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 227, in process
>     url = save_attachment(mlist, part, dir, filter_html=False)
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 374, in save_attachm
> ent
>     lock.lock()
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 243, in lock
>     self.__write()
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 422, in __write
>     fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w')
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/mailman/archives/private/members
> hip/attachments/20060301/cf7df1b6/attachments.lock.sparks.serve.com.23421.369'
>
> Mar 29 19:05:37 2006 (23421) SHUNTING: 1143677136.7960529+889704a08fe8f3c3bc33
> 625fc844ed14d4b14ca4
>
>
> Thanks!
> Kristina
>


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