[Mailman-Users] Mailman not updating the archives

[Jack Knowlton]

On Fri, February 20, 2009 6:11 pm, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Jack Knowlton wrote:
>
>>I posted on this list sometime ago regarding a problem happening after I
>>moved a mailman installation.
>>I thought that the problem had been fixed but today I went to check the
>>archives and noticed they stopped at the same time I moved the mailman
>>files.
>>This is the last entry in my error log:
>>
>>Feb 19 12:08:39 2009 (17573) SHUNTING:
>>1235041717.338851+bdcc479aac14874fbec763cf0e1022c45bc65d1e
>>Feb 19 13:13:42 2009 (17573) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 13]
>>Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/mylist/index.html'
>>Feb 19 13:13:42 2009 (17573) Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 120, in _oneloop
>>    self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
>>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 191, in _onefile
>>    keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/ArchRunner.py", line 73, in
>> _dispose
>>    mlist.ArchiveMail(msg)
>>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 215, in
>>ArchiveMail
>>    h.close()
>>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 324, in
>> close
>>    self.write_TOC()
>>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 1097, in
>>write_TOC
>>    toc = open(os.path.join(self.basedir, 'index.html'), 'w')
>>IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
>>'/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/mylist/index.html'
>>
>>Feb 19 13:13:42 2009 (17573) SHUNTING:
>>1235045618.2635429+2b370b4b48cfad3b14f5744a3e408e220ec4079c
>>
>>
>>And the permissions on "index.html" are:
>>
>>dell-srv2:~# ls -alh /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/mylist/index.html
>>-rw-r--r-- 1 root list 9.8K 2009-01-18 12:27
>>/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/mylist/index.html
>>
>>
>>I ran several times check_perms -f and it says all is fixed.
>
>
> check_perms is lying (actually, there are many files, as opposed to
> directories, that check_perms doesn't check). The above file and all
> files in /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/ excluding those in
> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/*/database/ need to be group
> writable.
>
> Once you fix these permissions, you could run bin/unshunt to add the
> shunted messages to the archive, but there is an issue in that the
> messages have been successfully added to
> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/mylist.mbox/mylist.mbox, and
> unshunting will add them again.
>
> Rather than trying to fix archive permissions, I suggest you verify
> that /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/mylist.mbox/mylist.mbox
> contains all the lists posts from inception to date, and mayby verify
> there are no stray "From " lines in message bodies with bin/cleanarch,
> and then stop Mailman and rebuild the archive with
>
>  bin/arch --wipe listname
>
> and then start Mailman. This way, the pipermail archive will be
> completely rebuilt with correct permissions.
>
> This is one reason why I always recommend when moving lists to just
> move the LISTNAME.mbox/LISTNAME.mbox file and build the archive on the
> new machine with bin/arch.
>
> Note if you do this, remove the shunted messages from qfiles/shunt/ so
> they don't accidently get unshunted in the future.
>

That looks like a great solution, but I can't find neither the "cleanarch"
nor the "arch" binary. (I installed mailman from debian apt)

-JK