On 9/17/2020 5:34 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 9/17/20 11:50 AM, Dennis Putnam wrote: >> Hit a bug page. Note this is the production server running 2.1.15 but >> the test server running 2.1.34 got the same thing. This is the error log: >> >> Sep 17 12:37:13 2020 admin(24458): >> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ >> admin(24458): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.15 -----] >> admin(24458): [----- Traceback ------] >> admin(24458): Traceback (most recent call last): >> admin(24458): File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in >> run_main >> admin(24458): main() >> admin(24458): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 227, >> in main >> admin(24458): mlist.Save() >> admin(24458): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 582, >> in Save >> admin(24458): self.CheckHTMLArchiveDir() >> admin(24458): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", >> line 236, in CheckHTMLArchiveDir >> admin(24458): breaklink(pubdir) >> admin(24458): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", >> line 56, in breaklink >> admin(24458): os.unlink(link) >> admin(24458): OSError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: > I thought that might happen, but I didn't confirm it. Oh well ... > > Do this: > > rm -rf /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/* > > Then Toggle the archive_private setting in the web admin UI for both lists. > > The background on what caused this in the first place is you apparently > copied your production Mailman installation to a test environment, but > whatever process you used to do the copy, copied the targets of the > symlinks in /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/ instead of copying the > symlinks as symlinks. > > This is what causes the issue with public archives no longer being > updated. They actually are updated in > /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/, but the pipermail URLs point to the > old, static archive now copied to /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/. > > We've seen this multiple times in backup/restore scenarios and moving > installations to another server. > > The bottom line is when backing up, always ensure you copy symlinks as > symlinks and not their targets. For rsync, this is -l/--links (included > as part of -a/--archive). For cp, it's -d or -P/--no-dereference or > -a/--archive. > Hi Mark, I'll give that a try tomorrow. In the meantime I discovered something that may or may not be relevant. Apparently the last saved archive was in Feb 2020. That was when I did a 'yum update' to version 2.1.15 to resolve the DMARC problem. I am betting that the RHEL version did something to cause this problem. It is too much of a coincidence to think otherwise.
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