On 8/29/2020 2:11 PM, Dennis Putnam wrote: > Since Centos 7 is way behind on mailman rpm (2.1.15 is the only > available rpm) and mailman is currently at 2.1.34 I need to do a manual > update. While I know how to install software, I am concerned that just > doing a manual install from the tarball will mess up current settings, > lists and members. Does anyone have experience doing this that can > advise about pitfalls or has a cookbook document to do a safe update? TIA. > After additional attempts and some research I am stuck upgrading mailman 2.1.5 to 2.1.34 and get the same results I had reported here earlier. I followed these instructions:
https://wiki.list.org/DOC/How%20do%20I%20upgrade%20a%20Debian/Ubuntu%20Mailman%20package%20from%20source. And made, what I thought were, the appropriate changes to the configure parameters: ./configure --prefix=/usr/lib/mailman --with-username=mailman --with-groupname=mailman --with-cgi-gid=apache --with-mail-gid=mailman If anyone sees anything wrong please point it out. Anyway, after doing the make and install, I start mailman and get this status: ● mailman.service - GNU Mailing List Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mailman.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2020-09-14 10:31:12 MDT; 20min ago Process: 20030 ExecStart=/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl -s start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Process: 20028 ExecStartPre=/bin/chmod 660 /var/log/mailman/error (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 20024 ExecStartPre=/bin/chown mailman:mailman /var/log/mailman/error (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 20021 ExecStartPre=/bin/touch /var/log/mailman/error (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 20018 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/install -m644 -o root -g root /usr/lib/mailman/cron/crontab.in /etc/cron.d/mailman (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 20014 ExecStartPre=/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailman-update-cfg (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Sep 14 10:31:12 harmonia.csd.net mailmanctl[20030]: File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/codecs.py", line 881, in open Sep 14 10:31:12 harmonia.csd.net mailmanctl[20030]: file = __builtin__.open(filename, mode, buffering) Sep 14 10:31:12 harmonia.csd.net mailmanctl[20030]: IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/lib/mailman/logs/error' Sep 14 10:31:12 harmonia.csd.net mailmanctl[20030]: Original log message: Sep 14 10:31:12 harmonia.csd.net mailmanctl[20030]: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/lib/mailman/logs/error' Sep 14 10:31:12 harmonia.csd.net mailmanctl[20030]: Sep 14 10:31:12 2020 (20030) Site list is missing: mailman Sep 14 10:31:12 harmonia.csd.net systemd[1]: mailman.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 Sep 14 10:31:12 harmonia.csd.net systemd[1]: Failed to start GNU Mailing List Manager. Sep 14 10:31:12 harmonia.csd.net systemd[1]: Unit mailman.service entered failed state. Sep 14 10:31:12 harmonia.csd.net systemd[1]: mailman.service failed. I don't understand the permissions denied error. Unfortunately it does not tell me what process is trying to open it. The directory is rw by mailman:mailman. In addition, the error that site list is missing 'mailman' is also confusing. Does the upgrade overwrite something that makes the existing lists disappear? The instructions say nothing about running anything else to make the lists known to the new version. I am guessing I need to do something with 'withlist' but I don't know what. Finally, I am concerned that the working 2.1.15 version has no 'mm_cfg.py' while the new version has a file with only comments. Perhaps this is OK if I'm using all defaults. I need someone to nursemaid me through this upgrade. TIA.
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