On 9/14/20 9:59 AM, Dennis Putnam wrote: > 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.
This FAQ (note period is part of URL) is not relevant. The relevant FAQ is https://wiki.list.org/x/8486953> which references the post at <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2004-October/017343.html> (also now at <https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-develop...@python.org/message/TNSLSSV7KSJGXHZE5RWVCOPHZR5SMAVG/> which contains a patch which enables Mailman to install in the RHEL/Centos way. (more below) > 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. I suspect this is a SELinux issue. That's what the RHEL FHS patch is for. Is SELinux enabled? If yoiu disable it does Mailman start? -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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