[arch-dev-public] Arch Mailing Lists

[Paul Mattal]

Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Paul Mattal <paul at mattal.com> wrote:
>> Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Eric Bélanger
>>> <belanger at astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Jud wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Just a quick note to ask if all the Arch Mailing List Archives are
>>>>> working properly? The last archive was Nov 21.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> They are not. It's a known issue: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12206
>>> Yeah, I need to fix this. Mails are still saved, I just bungled
>>> something - I think it may be a cron job or something... Paul, ideas?
>> Since the http user is now http, and mailman knows this (configured
>> --with-cgi-gid=http), might it be trying to generate its files running as
>> http and failing?
>>
>> I think it's the mailmanctl that triggers the HTML generation, and that's
>> running.
>>
>> The log suggests it's a permissions error that's got it bothered:
>>
>> [paul at gerolde logs]$ tail /home/mailman/logs/error
>>  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 216, in ArchiveMail
>>    h.processUnixMailbox(f)
>>  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 580, in
>> processUnixMailbox
>>    self.add_article(a)
>>  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 621, in
>> add_article
>>    filename))
>>  File "/build/pkg/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 1117, in
>> write_article
>> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
>> '/home/mailman/archives/private/arch-commits/2008-November.txt'
>>
>> Nov 24 19:55:29 2008 (883) SHUNTING:
>> 1227574528.0539091+1d68829fb20ee10145eb849e4aad96c7d175b4a6
> 
> Good catch. I chown'd them to http to see if that helps. Re-running
> bin/arch arch-general (as sudo, sadly) to see if this works out

Seems like when mailman creates new archive files, it is creating them 
mailman:mailman 664. The current stuff is http:mailman 644, and so it 
can't write to it when running as mailman:mailman.

Maybe try chowning mailman:mailman 664?

- P