Package: mailman Version: 2.1.5-8 Severity: normal
If the file permissions or ownership of a list's archives have become corrupted (for instance, if you're an idiot who has run /var/lib/mailman/bin/arch [list name] as root rather than as list), future attempts to recreate the HTML files for the archive will fail. This is fair enough, but they are failing at the wrong point. The exception is thrown at the point where Mailman attempts to create the symlink to the new default index file (for instance thread.html) as index.html -- at this point the archiver falls over because index.html already exists. It ought to fail at the previous stage where it attempts to unlink index.html and cannot do so because of a permissions problem, though it'd also need to consider the case where index.html doesn't exist yet because this is the first message to the list in this particular (part of the) archive. I strongly suspect this is a two-line fix but I don't really speak Python so I shan't attempt it. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages mailman depends on: ii apache [httpd] 1.3.33-6 versatile, high-performance HTTP s ii apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd] 2.0.54-4 traditional model for Apache2 ii cron 3.0pl1-86 management of regular background p ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii logrotate 3.7-5 Log rotation utility ii pwgen 2.03-1 Automatic Password generation ii python 2.3.5-2 An interactive high-level object-o ii sendmail-bin [mail-transpor 8.13.4-3 powerful, efficient, and scalable ii ucf 1.17 Update Configuration File: preserv -- debconf information: mailman/queue_files_present: mailman/default_server_language: en mailman/gate_news: false * mailman/site_languages: en * mailman/used_languages: * mailman/create_site_list: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
