Re: [Mailman-Users] move from version 2.0.11 to 2.1.5

2006-01-25 Thread John Dennis
ilman-*/INSTALL.REDHAT for documentation on the directory structure, you may not have copied the old list data into the locations currently used. -- John Dennis Red Hat Software -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.p

Re: [Mailman-Users] domain change for mailman

2006-01-23 Thread John Dennis
o mm_cfg.py files. Something to do > with your 'package' I suppose. Does one import from the other? They are the same file. The mm_cfg.py in /etc/mailman is a sym link to /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman or postfix problem?

2006-01-04 Thread John Dennis
Thomas Waters wrote: ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Command died with status 2: > "/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman post rxtesttuesday". Command >output: Group > mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be >executed as > group "mailman", but the system's mail server execu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman under Cygwin - won't add list

2005-12-22 Thread John Dennis
Ben wrote: >>The underlying problem here is Windows lack of support for >>setting effective user and group ids. This breaks all kinds >>of things that Mailman assumes about its environment. >> >> > >Yes, that's clear :) The question remaining is, is there any hope of >getting around it :( >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Error when accessing Mailman CGI web interface

2005-12-20 Thread John Dennis
it should have no problems reading the driver script, but that is what is failing, go figure, seems like it should work. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] Error when accessing Mailman CGI web interface

2005-12-20 Thread John Dennis
what does ls -l /home/mailman/domains/chuckie.co.uk/scripts/driver say? what does /usr/sbin/getenforce say? -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archive browsing question

2005-12-19 Thread John Dennis
eneral was not a prime design point for mailman, a limitation which is recognized and hopefully will be better addressed in MM 3.0. If you have very sensitive information in your archives you may want to consider an alternate solution. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permissions problem accessing commands via php

2005-12-09 Thread John Dennis
n this one. Essentially you have two choices: 1) The php script executes as a member of the mailman group 2) The php script invokes a wrapper just like the CGI does. This is preferred for a variety of security reasons. It would not be hard to create a new wrapper from

Re: [Mailman-Users] High usage -- making Mailman "nice"

2005-12-09 Thread John Dennis
On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 17:50 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: > John Dennis wrote: > > > >If your MTA can only handle one, or a small number of client connections > >then each connection will be busy handling SMTP_MAX_RCPTS and other > >client connections will queue up. If you

Re: [Mailman-Users] High usage -- making Mailman "nice"

2005-12-08 Thread John Dennis
tain a connection from the SMTP connection pool because mailman will cycle through connections in a serial manner leaving the rest of the SMTP client connection pool available for other SMTP clients. HTH, -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Uhhuh, my GID blues goes on... :( - Case SOLVED!

2005-11-28 Thread John Dennis
mailman specific uid/gid then when those aliases instruct postfix to run a command (e.g. the wrapper) then it will do so with the uid/gid of the mailman alias file. In your case you ended up with a mixed bag of aliases and depending on which bag the alias was found in first you got the uid/gid of t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting up lists on a replacement list server w/different name

2005-11-18 Thread John Dennis
ot;turn off" the old name, you can't have two machines trying to answer service requests for the same name without a very complex scheme which is probably far beyond what you want to get involved with. Mailman's involvement with the name change is minimal, it effects all inte

Re: [Mailman-Users] having trouble getting webpages to come up

2005-11-17 Thread John Dennis
ed so that mailman is replaced by the cgi location and executed. In this case the cgi location is /usr/local/lib/mailman/cgi-bin, it will try to find the script "listinfo" in that directory because that is the next part of the path and it will pass "mylist" as a p

Re: [Mailman-Users] having trouble getting webpages to come up

2005-11-17 Thread John Dennis
as any further > troubleshooting ideas about this I'd appreciate hearing them. Thanks a lot... And did you restart Apache so it would reread its configuration? Are you getting a 404 "Not Found" error? Do you have any rewriting rules enabled which might rewrite the mailman URL by mistake? -

Re: [Mailman-Users] having trouble getting webpages to come up

2005-11-17 Thread John Dennis
-users%40python.org/ > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/jdennis%40redhat.com > > Security Policy: > http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't run qrunner because of permissions problem

2005-11-17 Thread John Dennis
SER then remove the file manually because most likely someone during initial testing/setup ran it in some other way. You should then be fine. Do verify the values of mm_cfg.MAILMAN_GROUP, mm_cfg.MAILMAN_USER. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest Option Problems

2005-11-16 Thread John Dennis
cron jobs? In particular the "senddigests" cron job needs to be scheduled to run periodically. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/m

Re: [Mailman-Users] migrating lists from 2.0.13-7 to 2.1.5-33

2005-11-14 Thread John Dennis
w set of aliases. Please read the file /usr/share/doc/mailman-*/INSTALL.REDHAT for Red Hat specific tips and to learn that 2.1 has a different way of being run than 2.0 did, you'll now start mailman as a regular service. Cron will be taken care of automati

Re: [Mailman-Users] Having mailman treat two domains as equal duringmigration...

2005-10-28 Thread John Dennis
27;t be changed readily. Thus Rule #2 follows from Corollary #1: Don't use sendmail :-) -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Having mailman treat two domains as equal during migration...

2005-10-28 Thread John Dennis
to go to the new address right where he won't see it (or were you planning on aliasing these as well?). -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/list

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman without hosting mail server

2005-10-27 Thread John Dennis
ve that is not a huge issue, but you should be aware it is a limitation. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Host not found

2005-10-25 Thread John Dennis
east you haven't indicated why you need to map a non-existant domain. The postfix site has good documentation on virtual domains (http://www.postfix.org/VIRTUAL_README.html), reading that might shed some light. HTH, -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restart Mailman and IP help

2005-10-24 Thread John Dennis
code, you don't have to explicitly set it in mm_cfg. However, if you created a list and then changed the hostname you'll have to fix the lists you already created because that information is embedded in the list after creation. The mailman FAQ

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members and email confirmation

2005-10-21 Thread John Dennis
to a new name and edit it so that it calls AddMember instead of AddApprovedMember. See Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py for an example of how to do this and the various exceptions you'll have to catch and handle. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Mailman-Users] to install MAILMAN at a provider

2005-10-21 Thread John Dennis
on) that you almost certainly would not have access to. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-

Re: [Mailman-Users] Interface questions

2005-10-19 Thread John Dennis
's are encouraged not to use an important password for mailman. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.p

Re: [Mailman-Users] Interface questions

2005-10-19 Thread John Dennis
ssword() to be a no-op. You would also want to configure the site defaults to never send password reminders. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Debian Mailman Setup Question

2005-10-10 Thread John Dennis
nclude $alias_maps in the local_recipient_maps parameter in postfix's main.cf. This is very clearly documented in the comments in main.cf and the LOCAL_RECIPIENTS_README file that is part of the postfix distribution and available on www.postfix.org. You need the alia

Re: [Mailman-Users] http://mm_cfg_has_not_been_edited_to_set_host_domains/

2005-10-04 Thread John Dennis
DN it sets the domans to the string you see above (which I had hoped would be more or less self explanatory as an indicator you have to manually edit the file). -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@py

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to alias /lists/mylist to /lists/mailman/listinfo/mylist?

2005-10-03 Thread John Dennis
is craft a rule which first attempts to match /lists/mailman and if that matches terminate the rule processing outputting the matched URL, else continue to process and rewrite the URL to the per list URL. BTW, rewrite != redirect -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Mailman-Users] apache errors

2005-09-29 Thread John Dennis
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 14:23 -0400, John Dennis wrote: > I suspect the problem is the http configuration for the directory that > was originally posted omitted the "Options ExecCGI" which is required to > tell the http server it is permissible to execute cgi scripts in this >

Re: [Mailman-Users] apache errors

2005-09-29 Thread John Dennis
your installation: ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/ AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Order allow,deny Allow from all -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] changing config.pck values? (I'm in a pickle)

2005-09-26 Thread John Dennis
You probably want to use the fix_url utility. Look in PREFIX/bin/fix_url.py, you will find documentation at the top of the file. Note, you don't run fix_url directly, its invoked by running PREFIX/bin/with_list, the doc explains this. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL P

Re: [Mailman-Users] new and improved stupid error

2005-09-23 Thread John Dennis
file called extend.py in the list directory ($prefix/lists/NAME where NAME is the name of one of your lists). Sorry, I realize this is a very python'ic answer but its the best I can do given the info. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can we use an external mail server with mailman ?

2005-09-23 Thread John Dennis
ying and SMTP configuration are outside the scope of the mailman-users list. You will need to learn what the SMTP server is on proxiad.com and configure it correctly. Or, locate everything on one server. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- M

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can we use an external mail server with mailman ?

2005-09-23 Thread John Dennis
e its running on the same machine as the receiving SMTP server and the aliaes are correct. I suspect what actually occurred is those are examples from mail sent on the machine mailman is running on where everything will resolve correctly. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with mailman

2005-09-22 Thread John Dennis
ag to prevent a sender from receiving their own post, if you send the mail from the same address you're expecting to see it returned in from the list, you won't. Have you looked in /var/log/maillog for SMTP messages? Have you reloaded you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Monthly password reminders not working

2005-09-21 Thread John Dennis
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 13:44 -0400, Darren G Pifer wrote: > On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 12:13, John Dennis wrote: > > > > I tried testing with: > > > > > > $ pwd > > > /usr1/mailman/mailman/cron > > > > > > $ runas -u mailman ./mailpass

Re: [Mailman-Users] Monthly password reminders not working

2005-09-21 Thread John Dennis
s its password reminder flag set to yes under general options and that the per user option to receive reminders is enabled for at least some members of the list? -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Us

Re: [Mailman-Users] Password protection

2005-09-21 Thread John Dennis
FAQ 3.11. How do I create a newsletter/announcement/one-way list? http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.011.htp -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org htt

Re: [Mailman-Users] Password protection

2005-09-21 Thread John Dennis
n as a distributor of messages is ignorant of them. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cg

Re: [Mailman-Users] "command not in docroot"

2005-09-19 Thread John Dennis
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 11:12 -0400, John Dennis wrote: > > This is on Redhat Enterprise w/ Plesk - I suspect a nightly > > up2date hosed something that mailman cares about. > > > > Any thoughts on what to do to correct this problem? One more suggestion: If up2date instal

Re: [Mailman-Users] "command not in docroot"

2005-09-19 Thread John Dennis
your apache configuration (I know very little about how Plesk works but I suspect it has a very strong interaction with apache configuration which is why since Plesk is in the picture you need to consider Plesk interaction). -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Re: [Mailman-Users] no authorisation

2005-09-15 Thread John Dennis
; errors in /var/log/messages or /var/log/audit/audit.log? * Do you have SELinux enabled? Try turning it off setenforce 0 * Can you create the list via the command line (mailman/bin/newlist) but not the Web UI? -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --

Re: [Mailman-Users] config.pck, apache, permissions and Errno 13 SOLVED

2005-09-14 Thread John Dennis
or /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/rmlist checking set-gid for /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/create checking set-gid for /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/edithtml checking set-gid for /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/options -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --

Re: [Mailman-Users] config.pck, apache, permissions and Errno 13

2005-09-14 Thread John Dennis
x 1 root mailman 18349 Mar 7 2005 private -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 18349 Mar 7 2005 rmlist -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 18349 Mar 7 2005 roster -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 18353 Mar 7 2005 subscribe -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Re: [Mailman-Users] config.pck, apache, permissions and Errno 13

2005-09-14 Thread John Dennis
#x27;t help because they are not in the group "list". Make sense? -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://ww

Re: [Mailman-Users] config.pck, apache, permissions and Errno 13

2005-09-14 Thread John Dennis
oth mail and cgi have to line up with how your MTA and web server respectively execute sub-programs. Also, being a bit more specific with how the web interface is not working properly would help solve your problem. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman stopped working after upgrade

2005-09-13 Thread John Dennis
is telling you that is not what is happening, its being executed as group mail. > > ## > #MAIN CONFIGURATION SETTINGS # > ## > > exim_user = mail hmm... very suspicious, looks l

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman stopped working after upgrade

2005-09-13 Thread John Dennis
m playing a little loose and fast here, but thats the idea in a nutshell). This probably only happens via an exim configuration parameter tied to mailman invocation. HTH, -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem integrating v2.1.5 into the mail system

2005-09-13 Thread John Dennis
n mapping when you re-route to the primary server. If the alias lookup's include domain information you may fail the local_recipient_maps lookup because although the user part of the address is correct it may include a domain part not recognized by the server fielding the request. I would use the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moved mailman, not arhchiving

2005-08-25 Thread John Dennis
. Try this as root: % chown mailman database -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/fa

Re: [Mailman-Users] no posts appear on a new list

2005-08-22 Thread John Dennis
e mail wrapper to accept a message but not log it. I wonder if your mail wrapper is actually executing. You can try piping a dummy message into the wrapper with the same args as the user your postfix program runs as. Pay particular attention in any of the logs to "grou

Re: [Mailman-Users] migrating from sourceforge list archive to mailman

2005-08-22 Thread John Dennis
you could install the mbox file and run mailman/bin/arch to rebuild mailmans archive from the mbox file. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] how to avoid mailmanSite list creation

2005-08-19 Thread John Dennis
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 12:47 -0400, Julian C. Dunn wrote: > On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 12:37 -0400, John Dennis wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 11:46 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > > > 1) I'm implementing web-cyradm installation to

Re: [Mailman-Users] how to avoid mailmanSite list creation

2005-08-19 Thread John Dennis
# > ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/" > > AllowOverride None > Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI > Order allow,deny > Allow from all > > ## > ## end mailman > ## > ###### > > Are

Re: [Mailman-Users] maximum size of mailman .mbox files

2005-08-19 Thread John Dennis
Brad> Dunno. But you'd be more likely to get an answer to > Brad> your question if you used resources appropriate to your OS. > > If John Dennis doesn't show up shortly with an answer, I recommend you > write to Red Hat support and ask about "large

Re: [Mailman-Users] list with capital letters in the name and the newlist script

2005-08-10 Thread John Dennis
at is the behavior. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman error when sending to test-subscribe

2005-08-09 Thread John Dennis
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 16:11 -0400, John Dennis wrote: > ouch. you're building in the install area before you've installed, This probably was not clear because I omitted an important but somewhat hidden fact, /usr/local/mailman is the default installation directory. Had you typed

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman error when sending to test-subscribe

2005-08-09 Thread John Dennis
t is just a copy of the join script (unsubscribe is a copy of leave). The part of install that copied the existing scripts worked, the part that installed copies of join and leave did not. I'm not sure why that part of the install failed but installing in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Premature End of Script Headers (permissions error?)

2005-08-09 Thread John Dennis
d to integrate with existing Red Hat packages and configuration. If you do start with the rpm it won't mean you'll be free from any configuration issues but you'll avoid a number of headaches. If you do go this route please be sure to follow the inst

Re: [Mailman-Users] check_perms errors

2005-08-09 Thread John Dennis
;t perform this step. cd to the mailman source root ./configure --with-mail-gid=mailman make make install Don't forget to add any other configure options you used previously. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] Is this a mailman or postfix error?

2005-07-28 Thread John Dennis
commands under the group belonging to the alias file, not to the mail_owner in postfix's main.cf file. I think I recall a config variable to turn the postfix behavior off, but you should not do that because mailman should be creating the alias file and hence it should match the uid/gid, but if

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest Sending Questions

2005-07-28 Thread John Dennis
on jobs are enabled. You can set the time this cron job runs so you can control when they are sent out. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-

Re: [Mailman-Users] apache and mailman

2005-07-27 Thread John Dennis
ilman using the configure option --with-cgi-gid=apache BTW, this is in the FAQ. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http

Re: [Mailman-Users] "No such list mailman" after creating list - Possibly Solved?

2005-07-26 Thread John Dennis
the service. Is there a mailman.conf file in that directory? If not grep all the files there looking for one that contains mailman. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Incoming messages are not received in Mailman+ Postfix

2005-07-26 Thread John Dennis
port 25 is being listened on the localhost (loopback) because your loopback is 127.0.0.1 and its listening on 192.168.0.0 which is 192.168.0.0 (ficticious net addr). If nothing is listening on the external interface, then is postfix running? If so did you restart it after modify inet_interfac

Re: [Mailman-Users] "No such list mailman" after creating list

2005-07-26 Thread John Dennis
inux, or use the vendors mailman package (by the way this applies to everything under SELinux control which for a mailman installation includes your MTA and web server. Your vendor has worked hard to make sure the security policy works for all components, if you build and install anything yourself you m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Incoming messages are not received in Mailman + Postfix

2005-07-26 Thread John Dennis
ymachine.mynetwork.com 25 Does postfix answer? -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman / Postfix Question on Tiger Server

2005-07-22 Thread John Dennis
help: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2004122809382235 -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman not sending - Solved(?)

2005-07-22 Thread John Dennis
is being assigned a permanent IP address via a local DHCP server you will likely have to make that change in the DHCP configuration. HTH, -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.

Re: [Mailman-Users] "No such list mailman" after creating list

2005-07-20 Thread John Dennis
fix" Also make sure what you used as --with-cgi-id --with-cgi-gid when you built mailman matches the id's used by your webserver. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http:/

Re: [Mailman-Users] -1 moderator request(s) waiting

2005-07-19 Thread John Dennis
ailing list has -1 request(s) waiting... ? http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.038.htp Note: the 2.1.6 version has this fixed. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Use

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problems upgrading to Fedora4

2005-07-18 Thread John Dennis
is list) and altered him to the fact there is a migration script in /usr/share/doc/mailman-*/contrib/migrate-fhs that will tell you what needs to be moved and move (and/or copy) it for you. Also in /usr/share/doc/mailman-*/INSTALL.REDHAT is documentation on the directory structure an

Re: [Mailman-Users] Private archive file not found

2005-07-15 Thread John Dennis
in an early version of selinux-policy-targeted related to private archives which was fixed a while ago by us. If you do see such a message the solution is to upgrade the selinux-policy-targeted rpm (or as a test you could put SELinux into permissive mode

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing the path of cgi-bin

2005-07-13 Thread John Dennis
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 14:42 -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > Right, exactly. But what' the best way to do this with Mailman. Pick a new location of your chosing, move the cgi-bin directory to it, then edit your httpd ScriptAlias entry for mailman. -- John Dennis <[EMAI

Re: [Mailman-Users] CGI account shouldn't be part ofmailman group, but...

2005-07-12 Thread John Dennis
e path? Yes, I believe that would be a mistake and you may need to go back and undo those file changes :-( mailman_install_dir/bin/fix_perms might be helpful, the -f option will "fix" the files. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] CGI account shouldn't be part of mailman group, but...

2005-07-12 Thread John Dennis
invoke the CGI wrapper. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives

Re: [Mailman-Users] CGI account shouldn't be part of mailman group, but...

2005-07-12 Thread John Dennis
by mailman. I don't think the problem you're concerned about exists, unless perhaps I've misunderstood you. You might find this FAQ helpful: 6.16. Understanding group mismatch errors - how mailman implements security http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=

Re: [Mailman-Users] E-Mail to some users get lost or are very late

2005-07-11 Thread John Dennis
so bounced. Once your MTA hands off a set of mail to a destination SMTP server a whole host of things can happen to it that has nothing to do with your server. Your best bet is to verify from the logs the mail left your server when you expected it to. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bug in Mailman 2.1.6b4

2005-07-08 Thread John Dennis
change its hardcoded setting in the "driver" script, you will have to locate this file and edit it. However, if you can, it really would be better to get your syslog working, you do want these errors logged and it really is better to keep sensitive information out of the publi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bug in Mailman 2.1.6b4

2005-07-08 Thread John Dennis
be able to see the stack traces). To analyze what caused a bug you'll need the stack trace. Although the stack trace is no longer visible it is logged on the system hosting mailman, I believe in the mailman error.log file, its location will be installation dependent (/var/log/mailman, /usr/local/

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problems with Mailman on Fedora Core 3 system

2005-07-05 Thread John Dennis
e that as of mailman 2.1 cron is not necessary to run basic mailman, as of 2.1 mailman is a service (e.g. daemon). Also, the init.d script plays an integral role in managing cron usage for the parts of mailman that still depend on cron. HTH, if you still have problems feel free contact me. -- Jo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Still installation woes

2005-06-20 Thread John Dennis
ailman is *not* setgid but postfix can pipe to that > OK, > > Also, should I end up with "any" files being owned by apache2? after using > the > web interface to add a list I found that aliases, aliases.db and > virtual-mailman.db were still the original ownership bu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Old config data

2005-06-20 Thread John Dennis
first virtual list and getting. my data dir > subsequently like thisneither db file were (re)generated I suspect what is biting you is that postfix has a feature whereby postalias runs as the user owning the alias file, this is independent of --with-mail-gid and --with-cgi-gid. -- J

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with a new install...

2005-06-15 Thread John Dennis
Examine /var/log/messages and/or /var/log/audit for "avc" messages, these log SELinux denials. 3) Try turning SELinux off (/usr/sbin/setenforce Permissive) 4) Contact me off list for a trial 2.1.6 rpm (I've created the rpm but have not tested it yet, you could be the guinna pig :-) B

Re: [Mailman-Users] aliases assistant

2005-06-15 Thread John Dennis
ose permissions are granted only to a non-root owner. Root is denied in this case. However root can su to that owner and then perform the operation. Also, the complete absence of execute permission is not something root can compensate for. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Red Hat FHS packaging

2005-06-15 Thread John Dennis
lable, free, and transparent. I suspect your conclusions are driven by a lack of familiarity with how to find what you are looking for rather than anything devious. To suggest disingenuous lock in by Red Hat is utter nonsense. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Re: [Mailman-Users] aliases assistant

2005-06-15 Thread John Dennis
not permitted) > > Any comments? I suspect /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases is either not executable or not executable by the user/group the command is running under (what user/group that is depends on how you did your installation) What does ls -l /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases say? --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Red Hat FHS packaging

2005-06-14 Thread John Dennis
ary to have special Fedora instructions. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.p

Re: [Mailman-Users] 2.1.5 fedora core 3 prevent mailbody problem

2005-06-14 Thread John Dennis
idual package defaults are not a standard. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py S

[Mailman-Users] chroot jails (Was: First-time poster...)

2005-06-07 Thread John Dennis
rocess and every object (e.g. files, sockets, devices, etc.). It is a Mandatory Access Control (MAC) sytem which means it cannot be defeated and offers great granularity (and unforuntely its own set of new headaces as the wrinkles in the security policy are ironed out ;-) -- John Dennis &

Re: [Mailman-Users] First-time poster...

2005-06-06 Thread John Dennis
y other things I can think of would be to strace (assuming you're on a system with strace, e.g. Linux) the postfix process and seeing where the failure occurs and/or to look at the postfix code that performs the lookup and see exactly what c lib functions it's calling and what triggers it

Re: [Mailman-Users] First-time poster...

2005-06-06 Thread John Dennis
oked at the postfix code but I wouldn't be surprised if postfix when it starts gets file information on all its input files referenced in main.cf and stores that information. If that information was altered while postfix was running it would likely get confused because it may be using id&

Re: [Mailman-Users] First-time poster...

2005-06-06 Thread John Dennis
Have you tried restarting postfix? Is mailman in /etc/shadow on the machine postfix is running on? -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-user

Re: [Mailman-Users] Monitor qrunner

2005-05-25 Thread John Dennis
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 19:39 +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 11:44 AM -0400 2005-05-25, John Dennis wrote: > > > I'm attaching our patch for this in case someone finds it useful. > > The attachment was stripped. Could you post it as a patch at the > SourceFo

Re: [Mailman-Users] can't make a new list from the GUI

2005-05-25 Thread John Dennis
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 10:36 -0700, Bo Gusman wrote: > John Dennis wrote: > > >On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 10:13 -0700, Bo Gusman wrote: > >>I am certain that SELinux is disabled, but how can I verify that? > > > >/usr/sbin/getenforce > > > Says "disabl

Re: [Mailman-Users] can't make a new list from the GUI

2005-05-25 Thread John Dennis
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 10:13 -0700, Bo Gusman wrote: > I am certain that SELinux is disabled, but how can I verify that? /usr/sbin/getenforce -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python

Re: [Mailman-Users] Monitor qrunner

2005-05-25 Thread John Dennis
ch for this in case someone finds it useful. On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 08:13 -0700, Robert Haack wrote: > What would happen if during the check you told mailman to stop first? > Could this mess things up or would it be fine? Yes you could do that, it is essent

Re: [Mailman-Users] /bin/sh: mailman: command not found

2005-05-24 Thread John Dennis
ology. If one got left behind after the rpm install then the %post section of the rpm is failing somehow. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailm

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