[NTLUG:Discuss] HELP! Upgrade went bad! My email server is DOWN!!!!!!

[Bobby Wrenn]

Bobby Wrenn wrote:
> Stephen Davidson wrote:
> 
>> <RANT>
>> I HATE IT when things that should "Just work" don't!  I have already 
>> spent just under two days (about 10hrs so far) working on this, and I 
>> can't afford the downtime anymore!
>>
>> I was trying to upgrade my server from SuSE 8.1 to SuSE 9.2, as well 
>> as configure a backup server so that my webserver would have a 
>> backup.  After a Motherboard Failure on the backup server was fixed by 
>> the fine folks over at Alter, the OS install went smoothly.  KDE, 
>> networking, etc, was installed.  SSH is up and running.  Mailman and 
>> Sendmail, that is when things got F-----D up.  The server was running 
>> a couple of mailing lists, including for the DFW J2EE SIG.  But 
>> Sendmail and Mailman won't play nice, and this Java Dude does not have 
>> enough Linux in him to fix this.  I have about 2 days before mail 
>> servers start dumping my incoming email.  (This was sent using 
>> alternate accounts).  I am desparate!  My client can't email me right 
>> now, and it is all cause some config settings were changed, and NOT 
>> DOCUMENTED!!!! I have found, and fixed some of the stuff, but I am 
>> still down and out!
>> </rant>
>>
>> This WAS working fine in SuSE 8.1.  I was not expecting a step 
>> backwards during upgrade.
>>
>> <Details>
>> sendmail-8.13.1-5
>> mailman-2.1.5-5
>> OS: SuSE 9.2
>>
>> blue:~ # newaliases -v
>> /etc/aliases: 40 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 465 bytes total
>> hash map "Alias1": unsafe map file /etc/aliases.d/mailman.db: 
>> Permission denied
>> WARNING: cannot open alias database /etc/aliases.d/mailman
>> Cannot create database for alias file /etc/aliases.d/mailman
>> blue:~ # ls -l /etc/aliases.d
>> total 6
>> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 1024 Dec  6 06:49 .
>> drwxr-xr-x  68 root root 5120 Dec  6 20:47 ..
>> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   29 Dec  6 06:49 mailman -> 
>> /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases
>> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   32 Dec  6 06:49 mailman.db -> 
>> /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases.db
>> blue:~ # grep -i dontblame /etc/sendmail.cf
>> #O 
>> DontBlameSendmail=GroupWritableDirPathSafe,AssumeSafeChown,TrustStickyBit,GroupReadableSASLDBFile,GroupWritableAliasFile,WriteMapToSymLink 
>>
>> O 
>> DontBlameSendmail=GroupWritableDirPathSafe,AssumeSafeChown,TrustStickyBit,GroupReadableSASLDBFile,GroupWritableAliasFile,WriteMapToSymLink 
>>
>> blue:~ #
>> </details>
>>
>> I checked the file permissions from a partial backup I made of the 8.1 
>> system before the upgrade (I have the old /var/lib/mailman directory 
>> handy).  The file permissions are the same!
>>
>> SO WTH changed between 8.1 & 9.2 that the settings and permissions are 
>> no longer functional?????
>>
>> This has my systems email completely down, so please either respond to 
>> my alternate address above, or feel free to call me at the number in 
>> my SIG. I am VERY DESPERATE!
>>
>> -Steve
>>
> If you don't install Mailman often it is easy to miss some of this 
> stuff. Most of the answers are out there but if you don't know the 
> question to ask it can be very frustrating. I just finised a similar 
> upgrade with Mailman and Postfix. I'm betting most of the things that I 
> found will help you.
> 
> 1. run /usr/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms
> 2. edit /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py (note case) verify or change 
> the DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST setting (may also be DEFAULT_HOST_NAME)
> 3. verify /etc/mailman.cgi-gid matches the gid of your web server.
> 4. verify the preferd host name for this list on the general options 
> page near the bottom.
> 
> Your file locations may vary. This is the default for SuSE 9.0
> 
> HTH
> Bobby
> 
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Well Steve said that wan't it and I can't help with Sendmail. Any 
Sendmail gurus ou there?