Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
[steven.jo...@vuw.ac.nz] Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 3:04 p.m. To: Mark Sapiro Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman I have a nasty feeling about selinux will check regards From: Mark Sapiro [m

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
I have a nasty feeling about selinux will check regards From: Mark Sapiro [m...@msapiro.net] Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 2:54 p.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman On 6/2/11

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman On 6/2/11 6:44 PM, Steven Jones wrote: > Yes, the lists themselves are under /var.the mailman binaries are under > /usr OK. What does /usr/lib/mailman/bin/dumpdb /var/lib/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck return. Does it dump a bu

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 6/2/11 6:44 PM, Steven Jones wrote: > Yes, the lists themselves are under /var.the mailman binaries are under > /usr OK. What does /usr/lib/mailman/bin/dumpdb /var/lib/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck return. Does it dump a bunch of data that looks like the attributes of a list or somet

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
Yes, the lists themselves are under /var.the mailman binaries are under /usr regards From: Mark Sapiro [m...@msapiro.net] Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 1:08 p.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 6/2/2011 6:03 PM, Steven Jones wrote: > > Here is the startup script, [...] > > MAILMANHOME=/usr/lib/mailman > MAILMANCTL=$MAILMANHOME/bin/mailmanctl ASo your script is starting /usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl rather than /var/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl. Presumably the insatllation in /usr/

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, Service mailman restart Here is the startup script, = #!/bin/sh # # mailmanThis shell script starts and stops GNU Mailman. # # Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 6/2/2011 4:54 PM, Steven Jones wrote: > -rw-rw. 1 mailman mailman 3902 Jun 2 12:00 > /var/lib/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck So it looks like the 'mailman' user can access the config.pck. So, how are you starting Mailman. Are you running /var/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl start Or s

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
-rw-rw. 1 mailman mailman 3902 Jun 2 12:00 /var/lib/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck From: Mark Sapiro [m...@msapiro.net] Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 11:12 a.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] error on

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 6/2/2011 3:58 PM, Steven Jones wrote: > Fixed the first one.tried restarting, same message.did the second > with -f which fixed ownerships (I have a case into Red Hat on this... > but it still wont start. > > PREFIX = /usr/lib/mailman > > VAR_PREFIX = /var/lib/mailman > > I think th

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
. To: Mark Sapiro Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman Fixed the first one.tried restarting, same message.did the second with -f which fixed ownerships (I have a case into Red Hat on this... but it still wont start. PREFIX = /usr/lib

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
From: Mark Sapiro [m...@msapiro.net] Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 8:54 a.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman On 6/2/2011 12:55 PM, Steven Jones wrote: > So the file is there.how to I get it to "

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 6/2/2011 12:55 PM, Steven Jones wrote: > So the file is there.how to I get it to "find it" again? > > Also I suspect its the same with all the lists. Probably it is all lists. The first thing mailmanctl does is set its user and group to those of Mailman. So there are two possibili

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
ubject: Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman On 6/1/11 10:23 PM, Steven Jones wrote: > > "Starting mailman: Site list is missing: mailman" mailmanctl can't find the file /var/lib/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck. -- Mark Sapiro The highway is for g

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 6/1/11 10:23 PM, Steven Jones wrote: > > "Starting mailman: Site list is missing: mailman" mailmanctl can't find the file /var/lib/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck. -- Mark Sapiro The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, CaliforniaBetter use your sense - B. Dylan ---

[Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-01 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, I ran out of disk space so I added 400gb to /var/lib/mailman2 and moved the archives with, cd /var/lib/mailman ; tar cf - . |(cd /var/lib/mailman2 tar xf -) So permissions should have stayed OKthen I did, unmount ~mailman2 and mounted it as ~mailman, permissions look right but I seem