[Mailman-Users] mhonarc and non-world-readable archives problem
Frank Cusack
fcusack at fcusack.com
Mon Jan 8 01:14:45 CET 2007
I've built mailman-2.1.9 with the mhonarc patch
(http://www.openinfo.co.uk/mm/patches/mhonarc/index.html) and it works
great. I am running on Solaris 10 with python 2.5.
The problem I have is that the list archives are not created world-readable.
[root at mailman:/var/mailman/archives/public]# ls -l
total 1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 webservd mailman 34 Jan 7 15:32 test ->
/var/mailman/archives/private/test
[root at mailman:/var/mailman/archives/public]# ls -l test/
total 21
drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 9 Jan 7 15:35 2007-January
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 1537 Jan 7 15:35 2007-January.txt
drwxrws--- 2 mailman mailman 3 Jan 7 15:35 htdig
-rw-rw-r-- 1 webservd mailman 2640 Jan 7 15:35 index.html
-rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 566 Jan 7 15:35 pipermail.pck
[root at mailman:/var/mailman/archives/public]# ls -l test//2007-January
total 38
-rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 6851 Jan 7 15:35 .mhonarc.db
-rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 1177 Jan 7 15:35 author.html
-rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 1191 Jan 7 15:35 date.html
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mailman mailman 11 Jan 7 15:35 index.html ->
thread.html
-rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 2402 Jan 7 15:35 msg00000.html
-rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 1205 Jan 7 15:35 subject.html
-rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 1145 Jan 7 15:35 thread.html
[root at mailman:/var/mailman/archives/public]#
In mm_cfg.py, I have MAILMAN_GROUP = 'mailman'. Now, if I set that
to www then would that make these files be created with group www?
Just wondering, because that doesn't actually help me. My webserver
(thttpd) requires that files be world-readable in order to serve
them, regardless of whether the web server actually has access permission.
Also just wondering, why is public/test a symlink to ../private/test?
The mailing list (and the archives) are not private.
So how can I make the archives be created world-readable?
thanks
-frank
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