Hi all Python/Mailman experts,
I am having problems setting up Mailman (1.1 and 2.05, 2.08 and 2.07) My
problem seems to revolve around permissions. I configured mailman with the
following command line (as suggested by the exim-howto):
./configure --with-mail-gid=8 --with-cgi-gid=65534
--prefix=/var/lib/mailman --with-ownername=mail --with-ownergroup=mail
--with-username=mail --host=noggon.com --with-groupname=mail
Firstly almost all installed files need their permissions changed (using
bin/check_perms bad gid (has: scott, expected mail) (fixing)) - is this a
normal part of installation?
Once all steps in the INSTALL file have been done then begin the errors
(in the apache error log):
Traceback (innermost last):
File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 71, in run_main
immediate=1)
File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Logging/StampedLogger.py", line 49, in
__init__
Logger.__init__(self, category, nofail, immediate)
File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 40, in __init__
self.__get_f()
File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 55, in __get_f
f = self.__fp = open(self.__filename, 'a+', 1)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/logs/error'
But what I do not understand is that the permission on the error file seem
as I would expect!:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mail mail 0 Feb 18 18:22 /var/lib/mailman/logs/error
It seems as though the webserver must have write permission to the
logs/error file - this makes sense as the error is being created by the
cgi-bin script. But annoying! and not picked up by check_perms
Correcting the permissions (so the webserver has access to the files)
seems to put the permissions in a loop of webserver->mail->webserver
(each change causing an error).
Creating a list using bin/newlist also causes problems because the list
files (esp. /var/lib/mailman/lists/test/config.db) does not allow the
webserver to read it - so viewing details of this list causes an error
I have searched high and low for others having similar problems but none
give insight into a solution.
I would appreicate any help
Thanks
Scott
Additional information:
The exim configuration (as per the Howto) seems to function fine.
- My exim (MTA) runs as mail:mail
- Apache runs as nobody:nogroup
- apache 1.3.9-14
- exim 3.12-10.2
- python-base 1.5.2-10potato Python 1.5.2 (#0, Dec 27 2000, 13:59:38)
[GCC 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)] on linux2
-- error log from $prefix/logs/error
admin(11163): [----- Mailman Version: 2.0.7 -----]
admin(11163): [----- Traceback ------]
admin(11163): Traceback (innermost last):
admin(11163): File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 96, in
run_main
admin(11163): main()
admin(11163): File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py", line 69,
in main
admin(11163): mlist.Lock()
admin(11163): File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1339, in
Lock
admin(11163): self.__lock.lock(timeout)
admin(11163): File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 219, in
lock
admin(11163): self.__write()
admin(11163): File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 350, in
__write
admin(11163): fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w')
admin(11163): IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/var/lib/mailman/locks/test.lock.kiko.11163'
admin(11163): [----- Python Information -----]
admin(11163): sys.version = 1.5.2 (#0, Dec 27 2000, 13:59:38) [GCC
2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)]
admin(11163): sys.executable = /usr/bin/python
admin(11163): sys.prefix = /usr
admin(11163): sys.exec_prefix= /usr
admin(11163): sys.path = /usr
admin(11163): sys.platform = linux2
admin(11163): [----- Environment Variables -----]
admin(11163): DOCUMENT_ROOT: /var/www/noggon/
admin(11163): SERVER_ADDR: 195.149.61.228
admin(11163): HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflate
admin(11163): CONTENT_LENGTH: 77
admin(11163): CONTENT_TYPE: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
admin(11163): PATH_TRANSLATED: /var/www/noggon/test
admin(11163): GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1
admin(11163): UNIQUE_ID: PHE9WMOVPeQAACckJ3w
admin(11163): HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-gb
admin(11163): SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1
admin(11163): REMOTE_ADDR: 213.98.26.235
admin(11163): SERVER_PORT: 80
admin(11163): HTTP_CONNECTION: Keep-Alive
admin(11163): HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0;
Windows 98)
admin(11163): HTTP_ACCEPT: */*
admin(11163): REQUEST_URI: /cgi-bin/mailman/subscribe/test
admin(11163): PATH: /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
admin(11163): QUERY_STRING:
admin(11163): SCRIPT_FILENAME: /var/www/noggon/cgi-bin/mailman/subscribe
admin(11163): PATH_INFO: /test
admin(11163): HTTP_HOST: www.noggon.com
admin(11163): REQUEST_METHOD: POST
admin(11163): SERVER_SIGNATURE:
admin(11163): SCRIPT_NAME: /cgi-bin/mailman/subscribe
admin(11163): SERVER_ADMIN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
admin(11163): SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) Debian/GNU
admin(11163): PYTHONPATH: /var/lib/mailman
admin(11163): HTTP_COOKIE:
test:admin=280200000069db27713c732800000038353934663736313965333039303735393865363033663136313239303534373037306537333832
admin(11163): SERVER_NAME: www.noggon.com
admin(11163): REMOTE_PORT: 60795
admin(11163): HTTP_REFERER: http://www.noggon.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/test
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