[Mailman-Users] What happened to my archive? Why isn't the archive process running?

[TGPlatt, WebMaster]

I've probably just misunderstood something here. When you helped me with my
setup in July, you had me create a mailman directory in the user's web space
and we used that directory somehow. I've forgotten the exact reason we did
that now but I vaguely recall it had something to do with working around my
old Redhat 7.2 and Apache 1.2 server's suEXEC setup to gain access to the
mailman programs. The user's web account still has that mailman directory
present in it. It hadn't occurred to me yet that it might not need to be
there at all now.

To help jog your memory, its setup looks like this:

myserver:/home/mylist/www# ls -als mailman
total 12
4 drwxr-xr-x  3 mylist mylist 4096 Oct 20 07:22 .
4 drwxr-xr-x 12 mylist mylist 4096 Oct 29 17:46 ..
4 drwxrwsr-x  2    598 mylist 4096 Oct 28 06:53 mail

myserver:/home/mylist/www# ls -als mailman/mail
total 48
 4 drwxrwsr-x 2    598 mylist  4096 Oct 28 06:53 .
 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 mylist mylist  4096 Oct 20 07:22 ..
40 -rwxr-xr-x 1                 598 mylist 39801 Jun 29 18:41 mailman

So, when I asked about ownership and permissions and mentioned "the
UserAccount/mailman directory", that's the directory I was referring to.
Sorry if I confused you. :-(

Should I just remove that "spare" mailman directory from the user's space
now?

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:mark at msapiro.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:56 PM
To: webwitchcraft at webwitchcraft.com; mailman-users at python.org
Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] What happened to my archive? Why isn't the
archive process running?

TGPlatt, WebMaster wrote:
>
>> Assuming mailman's home directory is NOT /usr/local/mailman and
>> assuming that prefix, and var_prefix are /usr/local/mailman, mailman's
>> home directory is irrelevant.
>
>But mailman's home directory (where all its programs, scripts, archives and
>discussion lists are stored) IS /usr/local/mailman and according to my
>Mailman/Defaults.py, both var_prefix and prefix are also
/user/local/mailman
>
>PREFIX          = '/usr/local/mailman'
>VAR_PREFIX      = '/usr/local/mailman'
>
>How does that change things?


When you said:
>>
>>Now can we talk about the proper ownership of all the mailman files both
IN
>>/usr/local/mailman directory structure and in the UserAccount/mailman
>>directory as well?


it seemed to me you were talking about two separate directories,
/usr/local/mailman and UserAccount/mailman. Whether or not these are
separate directories or the same directory, the ownership and
permissions on /usr/local/mailman are the only ones that matter.

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