[NTLUG:Discuss] Mailman weirdness

[Stephen Davidson]

Hi Greg.

Responses inlined...

Greg Edwards wrote:
> Stephen Davidson wrote:
> 
>>>> The symptoms are;
>>>> 1) The subscription page hangs during subscription, no error message
> 
> Do you have your dir mode set to group rws or rwx?  Needs to be rws. Did 
> you set group and owner to the same as http daemon?
All the dirs seem to be rws.  As for group/owner, this is where things get
tricky.  To run, sendmail needs some files belonging to root:mail (with no
rws set - specifically the aliases files in the data directory).  Otherwise,
newalieses throws permission exceptions. Other files & directories need group
mailman, and  owner of either root, mailman, or wwwrun, depending.  I am guessing it
is one of these that I have "misowned".  Question is, which one, and where?
I am hoping one of the Gurus on this list can come up with the clue needed to
solve this.

>>> Did you setup the smrsh wrapper?
>>
>> This would be the smrsh in the /usr/lib/sendmail.d/bin dir?
>> It was apparently done during an earlier effort.
> 
> Mine is in /etc/smrsh
Seems the got rid of /etc/smrsh for SuSE...

> 
>>> Did you add the new list to aliases?
>>
>>
>> It was done by the setup scripts.
>>
> 
> What version are you running?  I'm on 2.1.1 and I have to copy the lines 
> mailman gives me into aliases.  The script did not do it for me.
Version 2.2.2.  Guess that was one thing that was fixed.

Regards,
Steve

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