Christian Stalberg wrote: > > I host several lists. One of them suddenly stopped working. In poking > around I see that the ownership had changed from mailman to apache > > [root@zarathustra mailman]# ls -la /var/lib/mailman/lists/listdude > total 56 > drwxrwsr-x. 2 root mailman 4096 Jun 8 07:41 . > drwxrwsr-x. 18 root mailman 4096 Feb 19 19:21 .. > -rw-rw----. 1 apache mailman 18639 Jun 8 07:41 config.pck > -rw-rw----. 1 apache mailman 18639 Jun 8 07:41 config.pck.last > -rw-rw----. 1 mailman mailman 132 May 14 14:26 pending.pck > -rw-rw-r--. 1 apache mailman 20 Jun 8 07:41 request.pck > > first of all, how could this occur?
It occurred because the config.pck was updated on Jun 8 at 07:41 by the web server, most likely the admin or admindb web GUI, but possibly a user's options page or ??? > secondly, I changed the ownership > back to mailman but the list still does not work. That's because the owner of these files is irrelevant. It's the 'mailman' group that counts as all the qrunners and web CGIs run as group 'mailman'. > what should I do next > please? Since it's only one list, see the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/noA9> and if that doesn't help, see <http://wiki.list.org/x/A4E9>. If you are still stuck after that, try to report more information such as what's in logs, can you access the list's web pages and so on. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> 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 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
