Hi All, I would like to report that I have resolved the problem. It was a problem I introduced, not the ports package, showing what unintended side effects some server changes cause.
I had introduced a new log rotation scheme using newsyslog in FreeBSD at around the same time I did the upgrade. This included, as an example, the following lines: # logfilename [owner:group] mode count size when flags [/pid_file] [sig_num] /usr/local/mailman/logs/bounce mailman:mailman 400 5 * $W2D1 X /usr/local/mailman/data/master-qrunner.pid /usr/local/mailman/logs/error mailman:mailman 400 5 * $W1D1 X /usr/local/mailman/data/master-qrunner.pid /usr/local/mailman/logs/locks mailman:mailman 400 5 * $W1D1 X /usr/local/mailman/data/master-qrunner.pid [..] The mode 400, applied on the first Tuesday morning to all mailman logs, also made all the log files unwritable for mailman. Mailman stopped, probably with the next attempt to write a log, and would not start again. I have now changed the mode to 660, which has fixed the problem. A manual chmod for all log files was the immediate fix. Amardeo -- Amardeo Sarma @amardeo sa...@gwup.org -----Original Message----- From: Mailman-Users [mailto:mailman-users-bounces+sarma=gwup....@python.org] On Behalf Of Mark Sapiro Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 7:25 PM To: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman would not start after upgrade to 2.1.26 On 02/12/2018 12:34 PM, Amardeo Sarma wrote: > > Does anyone have an idea what could have changed the write permissions for > the logs during an upgrade? I use portmaster under FreeBSD. This would seem to be an issue with FreeBSD ports. You should report this to whoever is responsible for that. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/sarma%40gwup.org ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
