Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman mali list already created

2009-05-18 Thread Brad Knowles
on 5/18/09 5:41 PM, Noah said: I have the MAILMAN_SITE_LIST only defined in the Defaults.py program so I am unclear what is the problem. any other clues? Anything you put in Defaults.py will get wiped out by the next upgrade. If you want anything to survive into the next upgrade, you need t

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman mali list already created

2009-05-18 Thread Noah
Mark Sapiro wrote: Noah wrote: I have the MAILMAN_SITE_LIST only defined in the Defaults.py program so I am unclear what is the problem. any other clues? r...@enabled:/usr/local/mailman/Mailman# grep MAILMAN_SITE_LIST Defaults.py MAILMAN_SITE_LIST = 'mailman' r...@enabled:/usr/local/mailman/

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman mali list already created

2009-05-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Noah wrote: > >I have the MAILMAN_SITE_LIST only defined in the Defaults.py program so >I am unclear what is the problem. any other clues? > > >r...@enabled:/usr/local/mailman/Mailman# grep MAILMAN_SITE_LIST Defaults.py >MAILMAN_SITE_LIST = 'mailman' >r...@enabled:/usr/local/mailman/Mailman# grep

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman mali list already created

2009-05-18 Thread Noah
Hi Mark, I have the MAILMAN_SITE_LIST only defined in the Defaults.py program so I am unclear what is the problem. any other clues? r...@enabled:/usr/local/mailman/Mailman# grep MAILMAN_SITE_LIST Defaults.py MAILMAN_SITE_LIST = 'mailman' r...@enabled:/usr/local/mailman/Mailman# grep MAILMAN_

Re: [Mailman-Users] phantom subscription requests

2009-05-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
David Newman wrote: > >Don't know if this is a coincidence, but ever since rebuilding a Mailman >server that crashed last week and restoring the lists from archives, the >site admin address has received a few dozen bogus subscription requests >to lists on that server. These can result from spam t

[Mailman-Users] phantom subscription requests

2009-05-18 Thread David Newman
Mailman 2.1.12 on OpenBSD 4.5 Don't know if this is a coincidence, but ever since rebuilding a Mailman server that crashed last week and restoring the lists from archives, the site admin address has received a few dozen bogus subscription requests to lists on that server. This is odd, in that I'm

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with mailman install

2009-05-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
LuKreme wrote: > >Yes, but the MTA did not change. Recompiling mailman via ports with >the same options it had been compiled with before failed >(WITH_MAIL_GID=mailman). Restoring from backup (which files are gid >mailman) worked. Same permissions on the mailman executable: And the group mi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with mailman install

2009-05-18 Thread LuKreme
On 18-May-2009, at 08:35, Mark Sapiro wrote: In order to provide some security against just anyone with shell access being able to run the wrapper from the command line, upon invocation the wrapper checks the original group with which the MTA invoked the wrapper, and if it is not the group the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with mailman install

2009-05-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
LuKreme wrote: >On 17-May-2009, at 19:29, Mark Sapiro wrote: > >> See the FAQ at to understand more about >> this error. > >My confusion about the error is that mailman has ALWAYS been setu for >uid/gid mailman, and has been for years and years. Yes, and the mail/