[Mailman-Users] Pipermail don't process the list.mbox

I'm fairly new to Linux...dabbled in it several years ago, and then
started using it on my computer almost full-time about three months ago.

I'm using Mailman 2.0.13 on Mandrake 9.1, but haven't figured out how to
get the Admin links page at http://hostname.tld/mailman/admin/ to
show the proper hostname in the link for the "send questions and comments
to" address. It shows up as mailman-owner at localhost.localdomain instead
of @hostname.tld

Any suggestions? I couldn't find anything in the docs or searches of
Google or the archives of this list that seemed to help.

Scott Rollins
softsecure at vivace.homelinux.net

Been awhile since I played with 2.0.13 but I think you should look:
1) in your ~mailman/Mailman/mm-cfg.py file (well really it will be in
your Default.py file, but you should only make changes to the mm_cfg.py
file)
2) in the web-admin pages for your lists look in the General Options
page. If your main page is defaulting to localhost then you'll need to
make sure these have been set right as well. Once you make the changes
to mm_cfg.py, new lists will be setup properly.

Good Luck - Jon Carnes

When you say "mailman refuse" do you mean that you just cannot see the HTML
archives or is there some problem being logged on the $prefix/logs/error log.

The configuration variable ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX should have the value 2 assigned
to it to get archiving to both mbox and pipermail (internal archiver
generating HTML archives)

Check in your $prefix/Mailman/Defaults.py and that the value their has not
been overridden in $prefix/Mailman/mm_cfg.py
Are you saying that the directory $varprefix/data/private/listname.mbox
exists bu there is no directory $varprefix/data/private/listname (which is
where the pipermail generated HTML archive pages should be) ?

Have you tried running $prefix/bin/arch listname ?

What console output does it generate ?

Ok, now I feel dumb : <oops>I've switched from sendmail to postfix and
installed mailman twice... and looked in the old logs/error location !
</oops>

I've got a clue now : I've got trouble with file permission in my
$varprifx/archives directory. The directories are created, the mailbox files
are filled with messages, the original HTML file saying 'list is empty) is
there. But it gets rejected trying to chmod an attachment file (oops).

I just did a "chmod -R g+s" on my $varprefix directory, but how do I force
the process to retry generating HTML files ?

Btw : If I issue a $prefix/bin/arch listname, it works (before my chmod, and
now).

Here is the log excerpt :

<<<<<<<
Apr 11 10:40:24 2003 (18637) uncaught archiver exception at filepos: 0
Apr 11 10:40:24 2003 (18637) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 1] Operation
not permitted:
'/var/mailman/archives/private/adv/attachments/20030411/38c3dbab'
Apr 11 10:40:24 2003 (18637) Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 105, in _oneloop
self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 155, in _onefile
keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/ArchRunner.py", line 73, in
_dispose
mlist.ArchiveMail(msg)
File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 206, in
ArchiveMail
h.processUnixMailbox(f)
File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 544, in
processUnixMailbox
m = mbox.next()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/mailbox.py", line 34, in next
return self.factory(_Subfile(self.fp, start, stop))
File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 79, in scrubber
return mailbox.scrub(msg)
File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 99, in scrub
return self._scrubber(self._mlist, msg)
File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 219, in
process
url = save_attachment(mlist, part, dir, filter_html=0)
File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 341, in
save_attachment
makedirs(fsdir)
File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 333, in
makedirs
os.path.walk(dir, twiddle, None)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/posixpath.py", line 279, in walk
func(arg, top, names)
File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 332, in
twiddle
os.chmod(dirname, 02775)
OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted:
'/var/mailman/archives/private/adv/attachments/20030411/38c3dbab'
>>>>>>>

Stopping Mailman and running $prefix/bin/check_perms with -f option should
fix permissions problems and should be preferable to hacking at them one at
a time..

Use $prefix/bin/arch to rebuild list archives and regenerate HTML archive
pages from the mbox . Run it with the --help option to get its usage.

Thanks for your time...
Well, my chmod didn't help, I've just tried that too but it still gives me
the message.
I've tried to rebuild the list archives with arch --wipe : it works like a
charm both runnin as mailman user or as root.

Maybe it's got something to do with this, but I've just re-installed mailman
with a new --with-mail-gid parameter : all of a sudden (more precisely,
after changing network params - ip adress and gateway - and rebooting the
box) the mailman wrapper script was complaining about the group postfix was
using !?!. It worked well until then !

After this re-install, it's back to normal... except list archives still
doesn't work.

Heeeeelp !

I'm using Mailman 2.1 but it doesn't seem to be doing the archiving.
I create a new list 'test2' and it creates the

archives/private/test2/
archives/private/test2.mbox/

but there's only the index.html file in the first dir.
I have archiving turned off by default for new lists in mm_cfg_py

DEFAULT_ARCHIVE = 0
ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX = -1
DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_PRIVATE = 1

but once the list is created I enable it for this list.
however several emails later, there's nothing in the archives.

If I do a 'check_perms' all is OK.
If I do a 'check_db' I get this error:

List: test2
/home/spacegen/mailman/lists/test2/config.pck: okay
/home/spacegen/mailman/lists/test2/config.pck.last: okay
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/spacegen/mailman/lists/test2/config.db'
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/spacegen/mailman/lists/test2/config.db.last

If I do a 'arch --wipe test2' I get:

No such file or directory: '/home/spacegen/mailman/archives/private/test2'


What have I done wrong?!

Paul

There is nothing wrong (at lest not so far). It can take 24 hours before
the first archives are built.
This is perfectly normal (the config.db files are the old style version
2.0.x Mailman configuration files).

OK. Thanks Jon.
Is it run from cron?
Can I force a build?
OK. good to know.

Thanks
Paul

Yes, you can look at the cron and run the command from there. That
should get things rocking and rolling right away.

Good Luck - Jon