Re: [Mailman-Users] Big problems with stale lockfiles on large list...

2001-04-27 Thread Graham TerMarsch
On Friday 27 April 2001 13:46, Gergo Soros wrote: > > Running Mailman-2.0.1, with Python 1.5.2 on a RedHat 6.2 machine along > > w/Apache-1.3.14 and Sendmail-8.11.0, and am having some serious grief > > with stale lockfiles on one of our lists. List contains ~60k > > addresses on it, and has cons

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Prohibiting Local Access to Archives

2001-04-27 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "PB" == Pug Bainter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> That's because the world execute bit is still on for that >> subdir, so they can cd into and look around to their hearts >> content. Just go ahead and turn that bit off (i.e. make the >> perms drwxrws---). PB> The oth

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Prohibiting Local Access to Archives

2001-04-27 Thread Pug Bainter
Barry A. Warsaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something that sounded like: > That's because the world execute bit is still on for that subdir, so > they can cd into and look around to their hearts content. Just go > ahead and turn that bit off (i.e. make the perms drwxrws---). The other problem is th

[Mailman-Users] Re: Prohibiting Local Access to Archives

2001-04-27 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "KJ" == Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KJ> Is there a way to prohibit local users (with some knowledge of KJ> Mailman's archive directory structure and naming conventions) KJ> from seeing the contents of archived files? KJ> I'd like to continue web-access to th

Re: [Mailman-Users] My old mailing list is not working after installation on a new distro.

2001-04-27 Thread Daniel Einspanjer
move_list did in fact fix my problem. Some notes to anyone in the future running into problems with move_list, make sure you clear out any stale lock files before you run it. It will just sit and wait for the locks to clear if you don't. Daniel On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 15:13:22 -0600, Ashley M. K

Re: [Mailman-Users] Prohibiting Local Access to Archives

2001-04-27 Thread Dan Mick
It seems to me that changing the permissions on the files you want to prevent access to anyone other than group mailman would be sufficient, no? Unless the process of adding to the files automatically resets the permissions, in which case it's probably the umask on the process creating them tha

Re: [Mailman-Users] Prohibiting Local Access to Archives

2001-04-27 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Kenneth Jacker wrote: > I'd like to continue web-access to the archives for list members, but > prohibit access to local users on the Mailman "host machine". The fact > that ../mailman/archives/private/ has "drwxrws--x" permissions isn't > sufficient. This isn't a mailman problem, this is a

[Mailman-Users] Prohibiting Local Access to Archives

2001-04-27 Thread Kenneth Jacker
This is the *third* letter I have written on the same topic. Before I give up and return to using Majordomo for certain lists, I am trying one last time. Is there a way to prohibit local users (with some knowledge of Mailman's archive directory structure and naming conventions) from seeing the c

Re: [Mailman-Users] My old mailing list is not working after installation on a new distro.

2001-04-27 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Daniel Einspanjer wrote: > I tried that, but the move_list program hangs as well. I can only assume it is >reading that bad directory and failing? > I'm going to try to create a symlinked structure and see if it can run then. Any >further ideas would be greatly appreciated. Synlinks have

Re: [Mailman-Users] My old mailing list is not working after installation on a new distro.

2001-04-27 Thread Daniel Einspanjer
I tried that, but the move_list program hangs as well. I can only assume it is reading that bad directory and failing? I'm going to try to create a symlinked structure and see if it can run then. Any further ideas would be greatly appreciated. Daniel On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 15:13:22 -0600, Ashl

Re: [Mailman-Users] My old mailing list is not working after installation on a new distro.

2001-04-27 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Daniel Einspanjer wrote: > I think I found the problem. I didn't make a mailman user in my new installation, >used my existing user "mail" and set up a /home/mail/ directory. Unfortunately, when >doing a grep for "/home/mailman/", I see the the mailing list's config.db is still >pointing to

Re: [Mailman-Users] My old mailing list is not working after installation on a new distro.

2001-04-27 Thread Daniel Einspanjer
I think I found the problem. I didn't make a mailman user in my new installation, used my existing user "mail" and set up a /home/mail/ directory. Unfortunately, when doing a grep for "/home/mailman/", I see the the mailing list's config.db is still pointing to the old directory structure. C

Re: [Mailman-Users] Big problems with stale lockfiles on large list...

2001-04-27 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Graham TerMarsch wrote: > I'm finding, though, that the WWW processes are regularly creating stale > locks that sit around and hold everything up. > > Any and all information, tips, pointers, or suggestions are welcome. I have a perl script run every 15 minutes and check for lock files. Any

Re: [Mailman-Users] Big problems with stale lockfiles on large list...

2001-04-27 Thread Gergo Soros
> Running Mailman-2.0.1, with Python 1.5.2 on a RedHat 6.2 machine along > w/Apache-1.3.14 and Sendmail-8.11.0, and am having some serious grief with > stale lockfiles on one of our lists. List contains ~60k addresses on it, > and has constant traffic to the WWW administration pages. Not high

[Mailman-Users] My old mailing list is not working after installation on a new distro.

2001-04-27 Thread Daniel Einspanjer
I'm having a problem with mailman 2.04 running with exim and apache on a mandrake distro. Fortunately, it is no longer the standard hard link problem. :) I read the FAQ and the README.LINUX and ran the secure_linux fix. One thing that took me a bit to figure out is that you have to run that

[Mailman-Users] Big problems with stale lockfiles on large list...

2001-04-27 Thread Graham TerMarsch
Running Mailman-2.0.1, with Python 1.5.2 on a RedHat 6.2 machine along w/Apache-1.3.14 and Sendmail-8.11.0, and am having some serious grief with stale lockfiles on one of our lists. List contains ~60k addresses on it, and has constant traffic to the WWW administration pages. Not high volume

[Mailman-Users] customization

2001-04-27 Thread Sean Hynes
Hello we are developing an OPT-in mailer system and we are looking for some advanced programmers that can create a high speed mailer system that works with our MySQL database. Right now we are developing an application in IHTML which is like Cold Fusion for the campaign management of sending m

[Mailman-Users] Grand Opening

2001-04-27 Thread Merchandise WholeSale
First off I would like to Thank You for taking time to read this letter. Second of all your e-mail address was pulled from an on-line source, if this was unsolicited from an unclean source we're very sorry, but you will not receive any other e-mails from us. This is the only & last me

[Mailman-Users] Swedish characters

2001-04-27 Thread Mikael Sjöblom
Hi! I have recently installed mailman and I am now trying to figure out how to make it accept swedish characters (åäö) in the templates (such as verify.txt/subscribeack.txt). Can anyone help me out? I tried to find an answer to that question in the mailman-users-archive but it is very hard to

Re: [Mailman-Users] one more time

2001-04-27 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
Did you make you archive "public". If not, the archives (if available) are viewable by http:///mailman/private/... Phil. ~~ /\ H E W L E T T/\/\Phone: +33 (0)4 76 03 86 72 /\/ \ P A C K A R D /\/