I've probably just misunderstood something here. When you helped me with my setup in July, you had me create a mailman directory in the user's web space and we used that directory somehow. I've forgotten the exact reason we did that now but I vaguely recall it had something to do with working around my old Redhat 7.2 and Apache 1.2 server's suEXEC setup to gain access to the mailman programs. The user's web account still has that mailman directory present in it. It hadn't occurred to me yet that it might not need to be there at all now.
To help jog your memory, its setup looks like this: myserver:/home/mylist/www# ls -als mailman total 12 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 mylist mylist 4096 Oct 20 07:22 . 4 drwxr-xr-x 12 mylist mylist 4096 Oct 29 17:46 .. 4 drwxrwsr-x 2 598 mylist 4096 Oct 28 06:53 mail myserver:/home/mylist/www# ls -als mailman/mail total 48 4 drwxrwsr-x 2 598 mylist 4096 Oct 28 06:53 . 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 mylist mylist 4096 Oct 20 07:22 .. 40 -rwxr-xr-x 1 598 mylist 39801 Jun 29 18:41 mailman So, when I asked about ownership and permissions and mentioned "the UserAccount/mailman directory", that's the directory I was referring to. Sorry if I confused you. :-( Should I just remove that "spare" mailman directory from the user's space now? -----Original Message----- From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; mailman-users@python.org Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] What happened to my archive? Why isn't the archive process running? TGPlatt, WebMaster wrote: > >> Assuming mailman's home directory is NOT /usr/local/mailman and >> assuming that prefix, and var_prefix are /usr/local/mailman, mailman's >> home directory is irrelevant. > >But mailman's home directory (where all its programs, scripts, archives and >discussion lists are stored) IS /usr/local/mailman and according to my >Mailman/Defaults.py, both var_prefix and prefix are also /user/local/mailman > >PREFIX = '/usr/local/mailman' >VAR_PREFIX = '/usr/local/mailman' > >How does that change things? When you said: >> >>Now can we talk about the proper ownership of all the mailman files both IN >>/usr/local/mailman directory structure and in the UserAccount/mailman >>directory as well? it seemed to me you were talking about two separate directories, /usr/local/mailman and UserAccount/mailman. Whether or not these are separate directories or the same directory, the ownership and permissions on /usr/local/mailman are the only ones that matter. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9