Package: mailman
Version: 2.1.9-7
Current behaviour:
The GNU Mailman package's init(8) script assumes that the site list is
called "maiman" and refused to start if there is not list with this
name.
Expected behaviour:
The GNU Mailman package's init(8) script should check for the
MAILMAN_SITE_LIST value defined in /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py and check
for a list with this name.
Solution:
I have attached a patch which fixes this issue.
--- mailman-2.1.9/debian/mailman.init
+++ mailman-2.1.9/debian/mailman.init
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl
PIDFILE=/var/lib/mailman/data/master-qrunner.pid
+MAILMAN_LIBRARY_DIRECTORY=/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman
+MAILMAN_CONFIGURATION_FILE=/etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
@@ -37,10 +39,33 @@
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
+get_site_list_name () {
+ # Load the GNU Mailman configuration and determine the site list name.
+
+ temporary_file_path=$(tempfile)
+ if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+ echo "Could not create temporary file."
+ return 1
+ fi
+ echo "import sys" >> $temporary_file_path
+ echo "sys.path.append(\"$MAILMAN_LIBRARY_DIRECTORY\")" >> \
+ $temporary_file_path
+ cat $MAILMAN_CONFIGURATION_FILE >> $temporary_file_path
+ echo "print MAILMAN_SITE_LIST" >> $temporary_file_path
+ site_list_name=$(cat $temporary_file_path | \
+ sudo -u nobody python 2> /dev/null)
+ rm $temporary_file_path
+ if [ -z "$site_list_name" ]; then
+ echo mailman
+ fi
+ echo $site_list_name
+}
+
case "$1" in
start)
- if [ "$(/var/lib/mailman/bin/list_lists -b | grep ^mailman$ )" = "" ]; then
- log_warning_msg "Site list for mailman (usually named mailman) missing."
+ site_list_name=$(get_site_list_name)
+ if [ "$(/var/lib/mailman/bin/list_lists -b | grep ^$site_list_name\$ )" = "" ]; then
+ log_warning_msg "Site list for mailman (named $site_list_name) missing."
log_warning_msg "Please create it; until then, mailman will refuse to start."
exit 0;
fi
