Re: [Mailman-Users] move from version 2.0.11 to 2.1.5

2006-01-25 Thread John Dennis
for documentation on the directory structure, you may not have copied the old list data into the locations currently used. -- John Dennis Red Hat Software -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] domain change for mailman

2006-01-23 Thread John Dennis
? They are the same file. The mm_cfg.py in /etc/mailman is a sym link to /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Error when accessing Mailman CGI web interface

2005-12-20 Thread John Dennis
what does ls -l /home/mailman/domains/chuckie.co.uk/scripts/driver say? what does /usr/sbin/getenforce say? -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Error when accessing Mailman CGI web interface

2005-12-20 Thread John Dennis
script, but that is what is failing, go figure, seems like it should work. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archive browsing question

2005-12-19 Thread John Dennis
, a limitation which is recognized and hopefully will be better addressed in MM 3.0. If you have very sensitive information in your archives you may want to consider an alternate solution. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] High usage -- making Mailman nice

2005-12-09 Thread John Dennis
On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 17:50 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: John Dennis wrote: If your MTA can only handle one, or a small number of client connections then each connection will be busy handling SMTP_MAX_RCPTS and other client connections will queue up. If you have 4,000 recipients then you have

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permissions problem accessing commands via php

2005-12-09 Thread John Dennis
of the mailman group 2) The php script invokes a wrapper just like the CGI does. This is preferred for a variety of security reasons. It would not be hard to create a new wrapper from the existing wrapper src code. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] High usage -- making Mailman nice

2005-12-08 Thread John Dennis
will cycle through connections in a serial manner leaving the rest of the SMTP client connection pool available for other SMTP clients. HTH, -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http

Re: [Mailman-Users] Uhhuh, my GID blues goes on... :( - Case SOLVED!

2005-11-28 Thread John Dennis
alias file. In your case you ended up with a mixed bag of aliases and depending on which bag the alias was found in first you got the uid/gid of that bag, hence the seemingly inconsistent behavior, which was in fact very consistent. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting up lists on a replacement list server w/different name

2005-11-18 Thread John Dennis
which is probably far beyond what you want to get involved with. Mailman's involvement with the name change is minimal, it effects all internet services. The short answer is for all practical purposes there can only be one machine who answers to that name. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't run qrunner because of permissions problem

2005-11-17 Thread John Dennis
likely someone during initial testing/setup ran it in some other way. You should then be fine. Do verify the values of mm_cfg.MAILMAN_GROUP, mm_cfg.MAILMAN_USER. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] having trouble getting webpages to come up

2005-11-17 Thread John Dennis
-users/jdennis%40redhat.com Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq01.027.htp -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Mailman-Users] having trouble getting webpages to come up

2005-11-17 Thread John Dennis
ideas about this I'd appreciate hearing them. Thanks a lot... And did you restart Apache so it would reread its configuration? Are you getting a 404 Not Found error? Do you have any rewriting rules enabled which might rewrite the mailman URL by mistake? -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] having trouble getting webpages to come up

2005-11-17 Thread John Dennis
to find the script listinfo in that directory because that is the next part of the path and it will pass mylist as a parameter. See the following doc: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_alias.html#scriptalias -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest Option Problems

2005-11-16 Thread John Dennis
? In particular the senddigests cron job needs to be scheduled to run periodically. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http

Re: [Mailman-Users] migrating lists from 2.0.13-7 to 2.1.5-33

2005-11-14 Thread John Dennis
/share/doc/mailman-*/INSTALL.REDHAT for Red Hat specific tips and to learn that 2.1 has a different way of being run than 2.0 did, you'll now start mailman as a regular service. Cron will be taken care of automatically. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] Having mailman treat two domains as equal during migration...

2005-10-28 Thread John Dennis
?). -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com

Re: [Mailman-Users] Having mailman treat two domains as equal duringmigration...

2005-10-28 Thread John Dennis
. Thus Rule #2 follows from Corollary #1: Don't use sendmail :-) -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman without hosting mail server

2005-10-27 Thread John Dennis
. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com

Re: [Mailman-Users] Host not found

2005-10-25 Thread John Dennis
/VIRTUAL_README.html), reading that might shed some light. HTH, -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restart Mailman and IP help

2005-10-24 Thread John Dennis
created a list and then changed the hostname you'll have to fix the lists you already created because that information is embedded in the list after creation. The mailman FAQ covers this topic in detail. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] to install MAILMAN at a provider

2005-10-21 Thread John Dennis
certainly would not have access to. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members and email confirmation

2005-10-21 Thread John Dennis
of AddApprovedMember. See Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py for an example of how to do this and the various exceptions you'll have to catch and handle. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http

Re: [Mailman-Users] Interface questions

2005-10-19 Thread John Dennis
mechanism. Mailman lets its members set and get their passwords, YOU DO NOT WANT to allow this with kerberos so you would probably also override setMemberPassword() and getMemberPassword() to be a no-op. You would also want to configure the site defaults to never send password reminders. -- John

Re: [Mailman-Users] Interface questions

2005-10-19 Thread John Dennis
an important password for mailman. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable

Re: [Mailman-Users] Debian Mailman Setup Question

2005-10-10 Thread John Dennis
in the comments in main.cf and the LOCAL_RECIPIENTS_README file that is part of the postfix distribution and available on www.postfix.org. You need the alias_maps because that is where you've defined mailman's email addresses. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to alias /lists/mylist to /lists/mailman/listinfo/mylist?

2005-10-03 Thread John Dennis
the rule processing outputting the matched URL, else continue to process and rewrite the URL to the per list URL. BTW, rewrite != redirect -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http

Re: [Mailman-Users] apache errors

2005-09-29 Thread John Dennis
ExecCGI Order allow,deny Allow from all /Directory -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin

Re: [Mailman-Users] apache errors

2005-09-29 Thread John Dennis
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 14:23 -0400, John Dennis wrote: I suspect the problem is the http configuration for the directory that was originally posted omitted the Options ExecCGI which is required to tell the http server it is permissible to execute cgi scripts in this directory. Oh, almost

Re: [Mailman-Users] changing config.pck values? (I'm in a pickle)

2005-09-26 Thread John Dennis
You probably want to use the fix_url utility. Look in PREFIX/bin/fix_url.py, you will find documentation at the top of the file. Note, you don't run fix_url directly, its invoked by running PREFIX/bin/with_list, the doc explains this. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can we use an external mail server with mailman ?

2005-09-23 Thread John Dennis
occurred is those are examples from mail sent on the machine mailman is running on where everything will resolve correctly. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can we use an external mail server with mailman ?

2005-09-23 Thread John Dennis
are outside the scope of the mailman-users list. You will need to learn what the SMTP server is on proxiad.com and configure it correctly. Or, locate everything on one server. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] new and improved stupid error

2005-09-23 Thread John Dennis
directory ($prefix/lists/NAME where NAME is the name of one of your lists). Sorry, I realize this is a very python'ic answer but its the best I can do given the info. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with mailman

2005-09-22 Thread John Dennis
, if you send the mail from the same address you're expecting to see it returned in from the list, you won't. Have you looked in /var/log/maillog for SMTP messages? Have you reloaded your aliases? -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Password protection

2005-09-21 Thread John Dennis
of messages is ignorant of them. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives

Re: [Mailman-Users] Password protection

2005-09-21 Thread John Dennis
. How do I create a newsletter/announcement/one-way list? http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq03.011.htp -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Monthly password reminders not working

2005-09-21 Thread John Dennis
to receive reminders is enabled for at least some members of the list? -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Monthly password reminders not working

2005-09-21 Thread John Dennis
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 13:44 -0400, Darren G Pifer wrote: On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 12:13, John Dennis wrote: I tried testing with: $ pwd /usr1/mailman/mailman/cron $ runas -u mailman ./mailpasswds -l testlist It just exits. Nothing in the mail or mailman logs

Re: [Mailman-Users] command not in docroot

2005-09-19 Thread John Dennis
little about how Plesk works but I suspect it has a very strong interaction with apache configuration which is why since Plesk is in the picture you need to consider Plesk interaction). -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing

Re: [Mailman-Users] command not in docroot

2005-09-19 Thread John Dennis
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 11:12 -0400, John Dennis wrote: This is on Redhat Enterprise w/ Plesk - I suspect a nightly up2date hosed something that mailman cares about. Any thoughts on what to do to correct this problem? One more suggestion: If up2date installed something that broke your

Re: [Mailman-Users] config.pck, apache, permissions and Errno 13

2005-09-14 Thread John Dennis
with how your MTA and web server respectively execute sub-programs. Also, being a bit more specific with how the web interface is not working properly would help solve your problem. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] config.pck, apache, permissions and Errno 13

2005-09-14 Thread John Dennis
are not group mailman then its setgid property is not going to work the way you expect. For instance if its group list then its going to execute as group list and the fact the files it references are -rw-rw mailman:mailman won't help because they are not in the group list. Make sense? -- John Dennis

Re: [Mailman-Users] config.pck, apache, permissions and Errno 13

2005-09-14 Thread John Dennis
-sr-x 1 root mailman 18349 Mar 7 2005 rmlist -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 18349 Mar 7 2005 roster -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 18353 Mar 7 2005 subscribe -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] config.pck, apache, permissions and Errno 13 SOLVED

2005-09-14 Thread John Dennis
/mailman/cgi-bin/create checking set-gid for /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/edithtml checking set-gid for /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/options -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem integrating v2.1.5 into the mail system

2005-09-13 Thread John Dennis
the user part of the address is correct it may include a domain part not recognized by the server fielding the request. I would use the postmap command to simulate an alias lookup and see what is returned and make sure domains are not part of the alias or if they are that they match. -- John Dennis

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman stopped working after upgrade

2005-09-13 Thread John Dennis
invocation. HTH, -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman stopped working after upgrade

2005-09-13 Thread John Dennis
CONFIGURATION SETTINGS # ## exim_user = mail hmm... very suspicious, looks like this is what is being picked up as the execution context. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moved mailman, not arhchiving

2005-08-25 Thread John Dennis
mailman database -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] migrating from sourceforge list archive to mailman

2005-08-22 Thread John Dennis
to rebuild mailmans archive from the mbox file. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py

Re: [Mailman-Users] no posts appear on a new list

2005-08-22 Thread John Dennis
executing. You can try piping a dummy message into the wrapper with the same args as the user your postfix program runs as. Pay particular attention in any of the logs to group mismatch errors. BTW, did you check the system log? -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] maximum size of mailman .mbox files

2005-08-19 Thread John Dennis
an answer to Brad your question if you used resources appropriate to your OS. If John Dennis doesn't show up shortly with an answer, I recommend you write to Red Hat support and ask about large file support in Python. Sorry, I was lurking because I don't have any definitive information

Re: [Mailman-Users] how to avoid mailmanSite list creation

2005-08-19 Thread John Dennis
mailman ## ## Are these config lines sufficient or my bug is from 1) question? Looks fine to me provided your path is correct. See above, you need the site list, you probably have a syntax error in mm_cfg.py. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] how to avoid mailmanSite list creation

2005-08-19 Thread John Dennis
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 12:47 -0400, Julian C. Dunn wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 12:37 -0400, John Dennis wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 11:46 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, 1) I'm implementing web-cyradm installation together with mailman-2.1.4-83.13 on SLES 9. Try

Re: [Mailman-Users] list with capital letters in the name and the newlist script

2005-08-10 Thread John Dennis
, but that is the behavior. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] check_perms errors

2005-08-09 Thread John Dennis
configure options you used previously. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable

Re: [Mailman-Users] Premature End of Script Headers (permissions error?)

2005-08-09 Thread John Dennis
with the rpm it won't mean you'll be free from any configuration issues but you'll avoid a number of headaches. If you do go this route please be sure to follow the instructions in /usr/share/doc/mailman-*/INSTALL.REDHAT. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman error when sending to test-subscribe

2005-08-09 Thread John Dennis
worked, the part that installed copies of join and leave did not. I'm not sure why that part of the install failed but installing into the build area and not being root during the install are likely culprits. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman error when sending to test-subscribe

2005-08-09 Thread John Dennis
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 16:11 -0400, John Dennis wrote: ouch. you're building in the install area before you've installed, This probably was not clear because I omitted an important but somewhat hidden fact, /usr/local/mailman is the default installation directory. Had you typed ./configure

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest Sending Questions

2005-07-28 Thread John Dennis
delivery of digests is implemented via a cron job that runs the mailman/cron/senddigests script. If your digests are not being sent the first thing to check is if the cron jobs are enabled. You can set the time this cron job runs so you can control when they are sent out. -- John Dennis [EMAIL

Re: [Mailman-Users] Is this a mailman or postfix error?

2005-07-28 Thread John Dennis
hand created it, then all bets are off. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py

Re: [Mailman-Users] apache and mailman

2005-07-27 Thread John Dennis
the configure option --with-cgi-gid=apache BTW, this is in the FAQ. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin

Re: [Mailman-Users] Incoming messages are not received in Mailman + Postfix

2005-07-26 Thread John Dennis
postfix answer? -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] Incoming messages are not received in Mailman+ Postfix

2005-07-26 Thread John Dennis
loopback is 127.0.0.1 and its listening on 192.168.0.0 which is 192.168.0.0 (ficticious net addr). If nothing is listening on the external interface, then is postfix running? If so did you restart it after modify inet_interfaces to include the external interface? -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] No such list mailman after creating list - Possibly Solved?

2005-07-26 Thread John Dennis
file in that directory? If not grep all the files there looking for one that contains mailman. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman not sending - Solved(?)

2005-07-22 Thread John Dennis
in the DHCP configuration. HTH, -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman / Postfix Question on Tiger Server

2005-07-22 Thread John Dennis
=2004122809382235 -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] -1 list moderator request(s) waiting

2005-07-19 Thread John Dennis
) waiting... ? http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq03.038.htp Note: the 2.1.6 version has this fixed. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Private archive file not found

2005-07-15 Thread John Dennis
such a message the solution is to upgrade the selinux-policy-targeted rpm (or as a test you could put SELinux into permissive mode, but you really don't want to run an open server in permissive mode). -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing the path of cgi-bin

2005-07-13 Thread John Dennis
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 14:42 -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: Right, exactly. But what' the best way to do this with Mailman. Pick a new location of your chosing, move the cgi-bin directory to it, then edit your httpd ScriptAlias entry for mailman. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] CGI account shouldn't be part of mailman group, but...

2005-07-12 Thread John Dennis
you're concerned about exists, unless perhaps I've misunderstood you. You might find this FAQ helpful: 6.16. Understanding group mismatch errors - how mailman implements security http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq06.016.htp -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] CGI account shouldn't be part of mailman group, but...

2005-07-12 Thread John Dennis
to invoke the CGI wrapper. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http

Re: [Mailman-Users] CGI account shouldn't be part ofmailman group, but...

2005-07-12 Thread John Dennis
/fix_perms might be helpful, the -f option will fix the files. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin

Re: [Mailman-Users] E-Mail to some users get lost or are very late

2005-07-11 Thread John Dennis
to a destination SMTP server a whole host of things can happen to it that has nothing to do with your server. Your best bet is to verify from the logs the mail left your server when you expected it to. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bug in Mailman 2.1.6b4

2005-07-08 Thread John Dennis
a bug you'll need the stack trace. Although the stack trace is no longer visible it is logged on the system hosting mailman, I believe in the mailman error.log file, its location will be installation dependent (/var/log/mailman, /usr/local/mailman/log are common locations). -- John Dennis [EMAIL

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bug in Mailman 2.1.6b4

2005-07-08 Thread John Dennis
script, you will have to locate this file and edit it. However, if you can, it really would be better to get your syslog working, you do want these errors logged and it really is better to keep sensitive information out of the public eye. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problems with Mailman on Fedora Core 3 system

2005-07-05 Thread John Dennis
). Also, the init.d script plays an integral role in managing cron usage for the parts of mailman that still depend on cron. HTH, if you still have problems feel free contact me. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] aliases assistant

2005-06-15 Thread John Dennis
by the user/group the command is running under (what user/group that is depends on how you did your installation) What does ls -l /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases say? -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Red Hat FHS packaging

2005-06-15 Thread John Dennis
to find what you are looking for rather than anything devious. To suggest disingenuous lock in by Red Hat is utter nonsense. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] aliases assistant

2005-06-15 Thread John Dennis
can su to that owner and then perform the operation. Also, the complete absence of execute permission is not something root can compensate for. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with a new install...

2005-06-15 Thread John Dennis
for a trial 2.1.6 rpm (I've created the rpm but have not tested it yet, you could be the guinna pig :-) BTW, the RHEL 4 mailman rpm already has the security patches that prompted the 2.1.6 release, but 2.1.6 has some other new stuff as well. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] 2.1.5 fedora core 3 prevent mailbody problem

2005-06-14 Thread John Dennis
technology advancement. Adhering to the FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) is a stated goal and appreciated by many. Most people prefer distributions that integrate packages into a coherent system that follow established rules. Individual package defaults are not a standard. -- John Dennis

Re: [Mailman-Users] Red Hat FHS packaging

2005-06-14 Thread John Dennis
special Fedora instructions. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives

[Mailman-Users] chroot jails (Was: First-time poster...)

2005-06-07 Thread John Dennis
object (e.g. files, sockets, devices, etc.). It is a Mandatory Access Control (MAC) sytem which means it cannot be defeated and offers great granularity (and unforuntely its own set of new headaces as the wrinkles in the security policy are ironed out ;-) -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] First-time poster...

2005-06-06 Thread John Dennis
is running on? -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] First-time poster...

2005-06-06 Thread John Dennis
be surprised if postfix when it starts gets file information on all its input files referenced in main.cf and stores that information. If that information was altered while postfix was running it would likely get confused because it may be using id's that no longer exist. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] First-time poster...

2005-06-06 Thread John Dennis
of would be to strace (assuming you're on a system with strace, e.g. Linux) the postfix process and seeing where the failure occurs and/or to look at the postfix code that performs the lookup and see exactly what c lib functions it's calling and what triggers it to return a failure. -- John Dennis [EMAIL

Re: [Mailman-Users] Monitor qrunner

2005-05-25 Thread John Dennis
things up or would it be fine? Yes you could do that, it is essentially the same thing as service mailman restart if you're running on an OS that supports sysV style service management. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing

Re: [Mailman-Users] can't make a new list from the GUI

2005-05-25 Thread John Dennis
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 10:13 -0700, Bo Gusman wrote: I am certain that SELinux is disabled, but how can I verify that? /usr/sbin/getenforce -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http

Re: [Mailman-Users] can't make a new list from the GUI

2005-05-25 Thread John Dennis
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 10:36 -0700, Bo Gusman wrote: John Dennis wrote: On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 10:13 -0700, Bo Gusman wrote: I am certain that SELinux is disabled, but how can I verify that? /usr/sbin/getenforce Says disabled - whew. So the question remains, why no new list? I suppose I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Monitor qrunner

2005-05-25 Thread John Dennis
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 19:39 +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: At 11:44 AM -0400 2005-05-25, John Dennis wrote: I'm attaching our patch for this in case someone finds it useful. The attachment was stripped. Could you post it as a patch at the SourceForge page instead? Yeah, I should

Re: [Mailman-Users] can't make a new list from the GUI

2005-05-24 Thread John Dennis
security policy that caused web based list creation to fail, command line worked fine. Have you looked for error messages in /var/log/mailman/error and /var/log/messages (in /var/log/messages you especially want to look for lines with avc) -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] /bin/sh: mailman: command not found

2005-05-24 Thread John Dennis
of the rpm is failing somehow. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation/Config Problems

2005-05-23 Thread John Dennis
]: [ID 947731 mail.crit] fatal: unsupported dictionary type: hash The following command will print out a list of supported map types: % postconf -m Is hash one of them? It would be surprising if it weren't, but this is the first place to start looking. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Bug?/no Admin level web access

2005-05-17 Thread John Dennis
you mean web access to it). Did you look for avc messages in /var/log/messages? Did you look at /var/log/audit/audit.log? (may not be present) -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Bug?/no Admin level web access

2005-05-17 Thread John Dennis
policy that is mated to the red hat mailman rpm's, which you're not using, there is a tremendous opportunity here for problems due to the mismatch. Let's try to eliminate SELinux as a factor altogether. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Plain text attachments

2005-05-16 Thread John Dennis
/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq04.039.htp -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py

Re: [Mailman-Users] Group mismatch error

2005-05-11 Thread John Dennis
mail_owner parameter). Ths is an MTA issue, please consult your MTA documentation. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http

Re: [Mailman-Users] Group mismatch error

2005-05-11 Thread John Dennis
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 17:12 +0100, John Poltorak wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:08:40AM -0400, John Dennis wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 23:45 +0100, John Poltorak wrote: Can someone explain what I need to do when I get this error - I don't want to have to re-run configure

[Mailman-Users] group mismatch FAQ

2005-05-11 Thread John Dennis
://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq06.016.htp -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with Mailman 2.1 on RedHat 9

2005-05-10 Thread John Dennis
with an old distribution. The fix is to either add MAILMAN_USER = 'mailman' MAILMAN_GROUP = 'mailman' at the top of your mm_cfg.py file -or- upgrade to a newer rpm. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users

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