On 9/14/2020 9:11 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > 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? > > > Hi Mark,
Thanks for the reply. Your article is not much help as I am already at 2.1.15 so the paths are already correct. I turned off SELinux to see if that helps but there is another issue after the reboot. I'll let you know when I get the machine back online. That may fix the permission problem but probably not the missing site list.
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