[Mailman-Users] moved lists and now they don't work

[Mark Sapiro]

carconni wrote:
>
>I'm still having trouble...
>
>I removed everything in /private/var/mailman/archives/public/ but  
>Mailman didn't replace the symlinks and when I tried to create the  
>symlinks, Mailman got really confused.  My lists are down and I don't  
>know how to recover them.
>
>corp-admin2:/private/var/mailman/archives/public root# ls -l
>corp-admin2:/private/var/mailman/archives/public root#
>
>
>I've run check permissions dozen's of times:
>
>corp-admin2:/private/var/mailman/archives/public root# /usr/share/ 
>mailman/bin/check_perms -f
>No problems found
>corp-admin2:/private/var/mailman/archives/public root#
>
>yet my error logs show permission errors.  I've tried changing owners  
>from mailman:mailman to root:mailman and back again - I've made  
>directories world readable but I still get these errors...


Are you running SeLinux or some other kind of security policy that is
denying access?


>Jun 26 19:13:08 2007 (10311) SHUNTING: 1182910388.3509221 
>+37c9faaaa7ce90d565375941efb6b3a61c9ad826
>Jun 26 19:13:28 2007 (10311) Archive file access failure:
>         /private/var/mailman/archives/private/customer-us.mbox/ 
>customer-us.mbox [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/private/var/mailman/ 
>archives/private/customer-us.mbox/customer-us.mbox'
>
>	corp-admin2:/private/var/mailman/archives/private root# cd customer-us


And what if you

   cd customer-us.mbox
   ls -la


>	corp-admin2:/private/var/mailman/archives/private/customer-us root#  
>ls -l
>	total 5200
>	drwxrwsr-x   8 root  mailman      272 Jun 26 14:33 2007-June
>	-rw-rw-r--   1 root  mailman  2654504 Jun 26 14:33 2007-June.txt
>	drw-rw----   2 root  mailman       68 Jun 26 14:33 database
>	-rw-rw-r--   1 root  mailman      479 Jun 18 13:30 index.html
>
>Jun 26 19:13:28 2007 (10311) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 13]  
>Permission denied: '/private/var/mailman/archives/private/customer- 
>us.mbox/customer-us.mbox'
>Jun 26 19:13:28 2007 (10311) Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in  
>_oneloop
>     self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in  
>_onefile
>     keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Queue/ArchRunner.py", line 73, in  
>_dispose
>     mlist.ArchiveMail(msg)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 199,  
>in ArchiveMail
>     self.__archive_to_mbox(msg)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 168,  
>in __archive_to_mbox
>     mbox = self.__archive_file(afn)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 156,  
>in __archive_file
>     return Mailbox.Mailbox(open(afn, 'a+'))
>IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/private/var/mailman/archives/ 
>private/customer-us.mbox/customer-us.mbox'
>
>
>Jun 26 19:23:03 2007 (10314) SHUNTING: 1182910982.1765511 
>+4636bcd0509b8d4fc66200d2a26b32dc929f0e06
>Jun 26 19:23:13 2007 (10314) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 13]  
>Permission denied: '/private/var/mailman/archives/private/ops'
>Jun 26 19:23:13 2007 (10314) Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in  
>_oneloop
>     self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in  
>_onefile
>     keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line  
>130, in _dispose
>     more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line  
>153, in _dopipeline
>     sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 91,  
>in process
>     send_digests(mlist, mboxfp)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 132,  
>in send_digests
>     send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 306,  
>in send_i18n_digests
>     msg = scrubber(mlist, msg)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 227,  
>in process
>     url = save_attachment(mlist, part, dir, filter_html=False)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 352,  
>in save_attachment
>     makedirs(fsdir)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 339,  
>in makedirs
>     os.makedirs(dir, 02775)
>   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
>python2.3/os.py", line 153, in makedirs
>   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
>python2.3/os.py", line 153, in makedirs
>   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
>python2.3/os.py", line 153, in makedirs
>   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
>python2.3/os.py", line 154, in makedirs
>OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/private/var/mailman/archives/ 
>private/ops'
>
>Jun 26 19:23:13 2007 (10314) SHUNTING: 1182910992.721427 
>+d396922f361992f9d2b65e96d4763591331f5010
>
>
>	drwxrwsr-x    9 root     mailman  306 Jun 26 18:49 ops
>	drwxrwsr-x    3 root     mailman  102 Jun 18 13:30 ops.mbox
>
>	corp-admin2:/private/var/mailman/archives/private/ops root# ls -l
>	total 40
>	drwxrwxrwx   23 root     mailman   782 Jun 18 13:30 2006-April
>	-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     mailman  6277 Jun 18 13:30 2006-April.txt
>	-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     mailman  1444 Jun 18 13:30 2006-April.txt.gz
>	drwxrwxrwx    8 mailman  mailman   272 Jun 25 18:53 attachments
>	drwxrwxrwx    7 root     mailman   238 Jun 18 13:30 database
>	-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     mailman  1040 Jun 18 13:30 index.html
>	-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     mailman   864 Jun 18 13:30 pipermail.pck
>
>Its funny, I was more worried about moving postfix and everyone's  
>mailboxes....I thought mailman would be a piece of cake.  If anyone  
>understands what happening here - I'd really appreciate it.


Assuming the mailman group has sufficient permission on the whole path,
I think it is likely some security policy that is denying access.

-- 
Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan