[Civsoc-mw] DAVY: resolved - Re: try 2 to civsoc-mw (Fwd) DAVY: mailman bug - what next ?

[Davie Munthali]

I have encountered a lot of bugs while installing mailman so this is not
strange

 

> admin(14089): IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/mailman/adm.pw'

 

As you have resolved it, it's an issue with the permissions. Mailman comes
with a

utility to fix such problems. The utility is called check_perms found in

/usr/lib/mailman/bin/ 

 

First you have to run the utility to check for permission as follows

 

[root at chambo3 bin]# /usr/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms

/etc/mailman/adm.pw bad group (has: root, expected mailman)

/etc/mailman/chambo3-etc-mailman-19-12-2016.tar bad group (has: root,
expected mailman)

/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.pyc bad group (has: root, expected mailman)

/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py-01-12-2016 bad group (has: root, expected
mailman)

/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailman-update-cfg bad group (has: root, expected
mailman)

Problems found: 5

Re-run as mailman (or root) with -f flag to fix

 

Then run

 

/usr/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms -f

 

Regards

 

Davie

 

 

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Civsoc-mw [mailto:civsoc-mw-bounces at sdnp.org.mw] On Behalf Of Dr
Paulos B Nyirenda
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2016 5:38 PM
To: civsoc-mw at sdnp.org.mw
Subject: [Civsoc-mw] DAVY: resolved - Re: try 2 to civsoc-mw (Fwd) DAVY:
mailman bug - what next ?

 

 

Davy,

 

The error log /var/log/mailman/error was listing the following error:

 

admin(14089): IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/mailman/adm.pw'

 

which was blocking LOGOUT when in which mailman admin. I have cleared by 

 

#chmod 777 /etc/mailman/adm.pw

 

and now it works - 

 

Unfortunately mod 777 does open security holes so may be we nee to work on
this a little bit more

 

BUT I will in the meantime configuire the mailing lists and make them
operational

 

Regards,

 

PC

======================

Dr Paulos B Nyirenda

NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD

 <http://www.registrar.mw> http://www.registrar.mw

 

 

 

On 19 Dec 2016 at 17:20, Dr Paulos B Nyirenda wrote:

 

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> Davy,

> 

> The installation of mailman on chambo3 is reporting a bug as here
attached.

> 

> Please find out what we should do next since you are the one who installed
it.

> 

> We need to have a working version of mailman as soon as possible,

> 

> Regards,

> 

> PC

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