[NTLUG:Discuss] (Another) SuSE Mailman Failure

[Stephen Davidson]

Greg Edwards wrote:

> Stephen Davidson wrote:
>
>>
>>  From the Mailman directory;
>> tankjr:/var/lib/mailman/archives # ls -l
>> total 16
>> drwxrwsr-x   4 root    mailman 4096 Nov 11 08:03 .
>> drwxr-sr-x   9 mailman mailman 4096 Nov 11 08:03 ..
>> drwxrws--x  10 root    mailman 4096 Dec 17 16:08 private
>>
>
>> Suggestions welcome.  'Cause until I can fix THIS, my mailing lists 
>> seem to be down, again.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Steve
>>
>
> Steve,
>
> From my mailman archives:
>
> total 16
> drwxrwsr-x    4 mailman  mailman      4096 Feb 19  2003 ./
> drwxrwsr-x   20 mailman  mailman      4096 Aug 23  2003 ../
> drwxrws--x   28 mailman  mailman      4096 Feb 29  2004 private/
> drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman  mailman      4096 Feb 29  2004 public/
>
> I've had issues with mailman before that turning on group write 
> permissions fixed.  I set all of my dirs with "chgrp mailman" and 
> "chmod u=rwx,g=rwxs" leaving the owner name and other permissions as 
> installed. YMMV, but this works for me.
>
tankjr:/var/lib/mailman/archives # chown mailman private public
tankjr:/var/lib/mailman/archives # ls -l
total 16
drwxrwsr-x   4 root    mailman 4096 Nov 11 08:03 .
drwxr-sr-x   9 mailman mailman 4096 Nov 11 08:03 ..
drwxrws--x  10 mailman mailman 4096 Dec 17 16:08 private
drwxrwsr-x   3 mailman mailman 4096 Dec 17 16:08 public
<<< Ran test here, still no change. >>>
tankjr:/var/lib/mailman/archives # ls -l private/
total 40
drwxrws--x  10 mailman mailman 4096 Dec 17 16:08 .
drwxrwsr-x   4 root    mailman 4096 Nov 11 08:03 ..
drwxrwsr-x  18 root    mailman 4096 Dec  7 20:46 j2ee
drwxrwsr-x   2 root    mailman 4096 Dec  7 20:46 j2ee.mbox
drwxrwsr-x   2 root    mailman 4096 Dec  7 20:37 mailman
drwxrwsr-x   2 root    mailman 4096 Dec  7 20:37 mailman.mbox

tankjr:/var/lib/mailman/archives # chown -R mailman private public
tankjr:/var/lib/mailman/archives # /etc/init.d/mailman restart
Shutting down mailman                                                 done
Starting mailman                                                      done
tankjr:/var/lib/mailman/archives #

<<<Tried again.  Still no improvement. >>>

http://j2eeguys.com/mailman/listinfo/J2EE if you want to see the current
web page effects.

If you guys have any other ideas, it would be greatly appreciated.

Otherwise, I am therefore going to have to spend some time this weekend
uninstalling the SuSE Security patches for mailman, and not sure what
else.  I have tried calling SuSE support on similar issues in the past.
Since the system boots, they won't open a ticket or assist with the
issue (I am not paying Enterprise support fees).  I am extremely
unimpressed and disappointed in the quality of their work since Novell
took over.

Regards,
Steve

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