[arch-dev-public] Arch Mailing Lists

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Paul Mattal <paul at mattal.com> wrote:
> Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Eric Bélanger
>> <belanger at astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Jud wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just a quick note to ask if all the Arch Mailing List Archives are
>>>> working properly? The last archive was Nov 21.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> They are not. It's a known issue: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12206
>>
>> Yeah, I need to fix this. Mails are still saved, I just bungled
>> something - I think it may be a cron job or something... Paul, ideas?
>
> Since the http user is now http, and mailman knows this (configured
> --with-cgi-gid=http), might it be trying to generate its files running as
> http and failing?
>
> I think it's the mailmanctl that triggers the HTML generation, and that's
> running.
>
> The log suggests it's a permissions error that's got it bothered:
>
> [paul at gerolde logs]$ tail /home/mailman/logs/error
>  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 216, in ArchiveMail
>    h.processUnixMailbox(f)
>  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 580, in
> processUnixMailbox
>    self.add_article(a)
>  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 621, in
> add_article
>    filename))
>  File "/build/pkg/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 1117, in
> write_article
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/home/mailman/archives/private/arch-commits/2008-November.txt'
>
> Nov 24 19:55:29 2008 (883) SHUNTING:
> 1227574528.0539091+1d68829fb20ee10145eb849e4aad96c7d175b4a6

Good catch. I chown'd them to http to see if that helps. Re-running
bin/arch arch-general (as sudo, sadly) to see if this works out