Re: alias question...
Dov Oxenberg <boxenberg <at> hotmail.com>
2008-04-01 03:44:11 GMT
Here is the line from my main.cf:
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/etc/mail/aliases, hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases
The results of my ls -l, which by the way I had looked at earlier also and neglected to mention, are
illustrated in the attached screen shot.
I see the system thinks the group membership is root rather than list, is that about right?
Yes, I am logged in as root both in the gui and ssh.
Ok, this is just too weird...I did chgrp etc. and then ls -l again and it it made no difference, group
membership did not get changed.
Well, as was said, "...the game is afoot Watson...."
Have to look into this and figure out what is going on.
Thanks again for your help!
Dov
> Did you add hash:/var/lib/mailman/date/aliases to the alias_maps setting > in your Postfix main.cf?> >
> > > I have no idea why your file management GUI would show you one thing and > check_perms something else.
what does command line "ls -l" show?> > Are you running check_perms as root? If so, and for whatever reason,
> check_perms doesn't fix it, you can always do> > chgrp list /var/lib/mailman/*> > Also, if your Mailman
user:group is list:list, that is what you should > set the user:group of
/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases* to.> > See the section just below the warning box at >
<http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node10.html> for some information > on icons, although the
default setting IMAGE_LOGOS = '/icons/' seems to > be correct for many apache installations.> > -- > Mark
Sapiro <mark <at> msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers,> San Francisco Bay Area, California better use
your sense - B. Dylan>
And please bear with me as I am relatively new to Linux and I really do try to help myself as much as I can before turning to the list for help. Apparently the target files/folders on my system are under /var/lib/mailman/. So, thanks to your help I have now overcome this hurdle. And yes, I had postfix set as the value for MTA.I am now stepping through all the troubleshooting steps in the mailman FAQ here http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.078.htp as I am not able to see pending requests in the web interface and not receiving mail from the list, any kind of mail (also not seeing the logo images, just the placeholders). What is strange is that in the graphical web based administration interface to my VPS, all the permissions appear set correctly, as far as I know, on /var/lib/mailman because I am seeing list as the group and root as the user on all the directories. As far as the user, list is only on locks and qfiles. When I originally ran check_perms it returned something like 80 "errors" so I ran it again with the -f flag and am now getting 11 errors, but only in the command line! When I again run check_perms -f it still reports back the same 11 "errors" as in: /var/lib/mailman/logs bad group (has: root; expected list) (fixing) and so forth through the remaining 10 directories. I have rebooted the machine but still appear to be stuck in the loop....any ideas??? Thanks again for your indulgence. Dov > Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:55:32 -0700> From: mark <at> msapiro.net> To: boxenberg <at> hotmail.com> CC: mailman-users <at> python.org> Subject: Re: RE: [Mailman-Users] alias question...> > Dov Oxenberg wrote:> > Hi,> > Actually this is probably the fourth or fifth time I am revisiting > > "Chapter 6."> > But I seem to be making better progress now than in my previous attempts.> > I am at the part where I am trying to make sure data/aliases* have the > > correct ownership, GID, etc. When I issue "genaliases" it seems to > > work...at least I get the command prompt back with no reported errors. > > Then, I try to do "chown mailman:mailman..." and am receiving the error > > message "chown: cannot access 'data/aliases*' : No such file or directory"> > > Have you set> > MTA = 'Postfix'> > in mm_cfg.py? Probably you have since
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