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Re: [gnu.org #1250610] Mailman file ownership problems


From: Bob Proulx
Subject: Re: [gnu.org #1250610] Mailman file ownership problems
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 13:40:12 -0700
User-agent: Mutt/1.9.3 (2018-01-21)

Ian Kelling via RT wrote:
> The mailman upgrade has been delayed a bit, solely due to other
> things poping up. We are still planning to get to it, but I've given
> Bob the ability to fixup the file ownership problems in the meantime,
> so Bob, please do as you suggested on your own, and let me know
> if you don't have time or any other issue.

That sounds reasonable.  I will put it into my task queue to work on.
I don't have time immediately but should have time for it in the next week.

Bob


> On Thu Nov 16 13:26:32 2017, iank wrote:
> > On Fri Nov 03 15:16:52 2017, rwp wrote:
> > > Hello Sysadmin,
> > > 
> > > Francisco Vila CC'd has reported a permission problem due to ownership
> > > when trying to edit the html for the lilypond-es mailing list.
> > > 
> > > The problem seems to be an ownership problem on lists.
> > > 
> > > lists:/var/log/mailman$ ll /var/lib/mailman/lists/lilypond-
> > > es/es/listinfo.html
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 list list 4513 2010-01-01 20:38
> > > /var/lib/mailman/lists/lilypond-es/es/listinfo.html
> > > 
> > > In order to write it from the web it needs to be user www-data.  For
> > > example here is a working listing.
> > > 
> > > lists:/var/log/mailman$ ll
> > > /var/lib/mailman/lists/coreutils/en/listinfo.html
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data list 4181 2017-11-03 14:55
> > > /var/lib/mailman/lists/coreutils/en/listinfo.html
> > > 
> > > The full details are forwarded below.
> > > 
> > > Could you repair the ownership of that list?  It probably needs more
> > > than just that one file changed.  Please double check the directory
> > > against a known good list and fix the set of whatever ownership needs
> > > to be adjusted.
> > > 
> > > And then please check the entire collection of mailing lists to catch
> > > any others that are also like this?
> > > 
> > > Thanks!
> > > Bob
> > > 
> > > ----- Forwarded message from Francisco Vila <address@hidden> -----
> > > 
> > > Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 11:56:40 +0100
> > > From: Francisco Vila <address@hidden>
> > > To: address@hidden
> > > Subject: [savannah-help-public] Mailman bug after editing HTML
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I am the maintainer of a list in lists.gnu.org. I'd like to contact
> > > the
> > > webmaster of lists.gnu.org because I reach an error page after trying
> > > to
> > > edit some code in the presentation page.
> > > 
> > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/edithtml/lilypond-es/listinfo.html
> > > 
> > > Bug in Mailman version 2.1.21
> > > 
> > > We're sorry, we hit a bug!
> > > 
> > > Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of
> > > traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited,
> > > but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs.
> > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> > > 
> > > Please forgive me if this is not the right place to contact the
> > > webmaster.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > 
> > Hi Francisco,
> > 
> > Thank you for the report. We are planning to upgrade mailman in the next
> > week or two and hope to fix this as part of that upgrade. I will let you
> > know when it is fixed.
> > 
> 



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