Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem Migrating Mailman to New Server

2008-10-26 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam wrote: OK, now I understand what you are asking. I restarted mailman and let it run for several minutes with no error in /var/log/mailman/error. Then I submitted a help to -request. That is when the error occurred. I suppose it might mot be the help request per se but rather

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem Migrating Mailman to New Server

2008-10-25 Thread Dennis Putnam
Mark Sapiro wrote: OK, this is confusing. The public archive directories are links (lrwxrwxrwx) to the private archive directories which contain the actual archives. Those directories are drwxrwsr-x. The files are 755. If the files are 755, that's OK, but they aren't executable so

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem Migrating Mailman to New Server

2008-10-24 Thread Dennis Putnam
Mark Sapiro wrote: Prior to 2.1.10, check_perms had a bug and didn't check the owner and group permissions on the archives/private directory itself. Permissions should be 2771 or maybe 2770 (drwxrws--x or drwxrws---). If archives/private is not o+x, it needs to be owned by the web server for

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem Migrating Mailman to New Server

2008-10-24 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam wrote: Mark Sapiro wrote: Prior to 2.1.10, check_perms had a bug and didn't check the owner and group permissions on the archives/private directory itself. Permissions should be 2771 or maybe 2770 (drwxrws--x or drwxrws---). If= archives/private is not o+x, it needs to be

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem Migrating Mailman to New Server

2008-10-24 Thread Dennis Putnam
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem Migrating Mailman to New Server

2008-10-22 Thread Dennis Putnam
That advanced the ball. The problem was that the mailman's primay group was mailman (Mandriva automagically creates a primary group for each user with the same name as the user name, that has been a problem more than once). I changed the primary group to mail. Thanks. However, I am now getting

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem Migrating Mailman to New Server

2008-10-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam wrote: However, I am now getting permission denied errors on the database folders. IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/mailman/database/2008-October-date.lock.dap002.2271.2' I ran check_perms and all is OK. This has always been about

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem Migrating Mailman to New Server

2008-10-20 Thread Dennis Putnam
Mark Sapiro wrote: Dennis Putnam wrote: Mark Sapiro wrote: Can you go successfully go to a http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo/listname page for a known listname even though it doesn't appear on the overview. If not, I think your web server is pointing at the wrong place.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem Migrating Mailman to New Server

2008-10-20 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam wrote: I'm making some progress as the problems so far seem to be ownerhip and permissions since the copy had to be done as root. I could not find anything that tells me what the group and owner should be for each associated directory but I think I have them all set to mailman:mail.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem Migrating Mailman to New Server

2008-10-19 Thread Dennis Putnam
Mark Sapiro wrote: Dennis Putnam wrote: I am installing a replacement server and am having trouble migrating Mailman. The installation works but none of my lists show up when I use the browser interface. However, when I run 'list_lists' from the command line they are there. Is this a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem Migrating Mailman to New Server

2008-10-19 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam wrote: Mark Sapiro wrote: Dennis Putnam wrote: I am installing a replacement server and am having trouble migrating Mailman. The installation works but none of my lists show up when I use the browser interface. However, when I run 'list_lists' from the command line they are

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem Migrating Mailman to New Server

2008-10-19 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam wrote: Mark Sapiro wrote: Can you go successfully go to a http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo/listname page for a known listname even though it doesn't appear on the overview. If not, I think your web server is pointing at the wrong place. OK, now we are making progress.

[Mailman-Users] Problem Migrating Mailman to New Server

2008-10-18 Thread Dennis Putnam
I am installing a replacement server and am having trouble migrating Mailman. The installation works but none of my lists show up when I use the browser interface. However, when I run 'list_lists' from the command line they are there. Is this a config issue with just the HTML interface or is there

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem Migrating Mailman to New Server

2008-10-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam wrote: I am installing a replacement server and am having trouble migrating Mailman. The installation works but none of my lists show up when I use the browser interface. However, when I run 'list_lists' from the command line they are there. Is this a config issue with just the HTML