On Fri, Mar 29, 2019, at 10:59 AM, Aaryan Bhagat wrote:
> >Please don't use sudo.
>
> Figure out what is the permission that you need and use only those.
> Sudo will get the `mailman start` to work and change a lot of other
> things that will break your installation.
>
>
> Abhilash is right! do not do that and assume the software is okay.
> First of all, I guess you are contributing here as a developer. Then
> you should do the work in a separate environment as individual machines
> can cause specific issues which may not be issues at all of the
> software.
> Read the Contributing Guide for this.
>
> Also for your current problem, I installed mailman from apt and looked
> at the files.
> The issue is with this line actually
>
> with open(filename, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as user_config:
> PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/mailman3/mailman.cfg'
>
> doing ls -lah in /etc/mailman3 gave me this output
>
> -rw-r----- 1 root list 11K Mar 29 22:50 mailman.cfg
>
> I added +x bit to all (This is a temporary sol)
>
> It worked but now gave me a new error
>
> PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/var/lib/mailman3/locks/mailman-cfg.lck|aaryan-Inspiron-5577|11022|4859493668370032506'
>
> Again doing ls -lah in /var/lib/mailman3/locks gave me this output
>
> dr-xr-xr-x 2 list list 4.0K Mar 29 22:50 .
> drwxr-xr-x 11 list list 4.0K Mar 29 22:50 ..
> -rw-rw---- 2 list list 80 Mar 31 2019 master.lck
> -rw-rw---- 2 list list 80 Mar 31 2019
> 'master.lck|aaryan-Inspiron-5577|9998|1555612377512779593'
>
>
> There is again a problem with owners and file permissions here. I can
> also fix this temporarily (Changed the group id)
The directory structure shouldn't be like this, the permissions are setup
for the `mailman` user to execute `mailman start` in Debian package,
AFAIK.
There should be a start script( systemd, init.d or whatever Debian is using
these days) to start Mailman Server.
>
>
> Now there is this Attribute Error I do not understand why :
>
> >Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/mailman", line 11, in <module>
> load_entry_point('mailman==3.1.1', 'console_scripts', 'mailman')()
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/bin/mailman.py", line
> 94, in main
> initialize(config_path)
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/core/initialize.py",
> line 189, in initialize
> initialize_2(propagate_logs=propagate_logs)
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/core/initialize.py",
> line 152, in initialize_2
> mailman.core.logging.initialize(propagate_logs)
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/core/logging.py", line
> 157, in initialize
> _init_logger(propagate, sub_name, log, logger_config)
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/core/logging.py", line
> 110, in _init_logger
> handler = ReopenableFileHandler(sub_name, path_abs)
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/core/logging.py", line
> 50, in __init__
> self._stream = self._open()
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/core/logging.py", line
> 53, in _open
> return codecs.open(self.filename, 'a', 'utf-8')
> File "/usr/lib/python3.6/codecs.py", line 897, in open
> file = builtins.open(filename, mode, buffering)
> PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/var/log/mailman3/mailman.log'
> Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/lib/python3.6/logging/__init__.py", line 1945, in shutdown
> h.flush()
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/core/logging.py", line
> 56, in flush
> if self._stream:
> AttributeError: 'ReopenableFileHandler' object has no attribute
> '_stream'
This could be an error if the log file wasn't properly initiated. But I am
not sure that this isn't a bug.
>
>
>
> Judging by the scenario I think we need to fix the ownership and
> permissions first or am I missing something here?
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thanks,
Abhilash Raj (maxking)
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