Re: [Mailman-Users] Weird lock error

2003-06-03 Thread William R . Dickson
On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 03:12 PM, Jon Carnes wrote: On all my installs, the ~mailman/archives/public/.. files are links pointing to the ~mailman/archives/private/.. files. Yours appear to be standalone directories. That was indeed the problem. Thank you! -Bill

Re: [Mailman-Users] Weird lock error

2003-05-30 Thread Jon Carnes
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 16:53, William R. Dickson wrote: > At this point, man, I'll show you my underwear. Or rather not, which > would be the more likely request: > > catalpa# cd /usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/archives/public > catalpa# ls -l > total 10 > drwxrwxrwx 9 mailman mailman 1024

Re: [Mailman-Users] Weird lock error

2003-05-30 Thread William R . Dickson
At this point, man, I'll show you my underwear. Or rather not, which would be the more likely request: catalpa# cd /usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/archives/public catalpa# ls -l total 10 drwxrwxrwx 9 mailman mailman 1024 May 24 2001 clasproject-list drwxrwxrwx 2 mailman mailman 512

Re: [Mailman-Users] Weird lock error

2003-05-30 Thread Jon Carnes
Just for fun, can you show us the output of: ls -l /usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/archives/public ls -l /usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/archives/private On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 14:06, William R. Dickson wrote: > Hurm -- I just chmodded the entire archives directory to 777, and the > erro

Re: [Mailman-Users] Weird lock error

2003-05-30 Thread William R . Dickson
Hurm -- I just chmodded the entire archives directory to 777, and the error persists. This has me totally stumped. -Bill On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 04:16 PM, William R. Dickson wrote: It looked that way to me, too. But the "mailman" user and group owns the directory, and both user and gr

Re: [Mailman-Users] Weird lock error

2003-05-29 Thread Jon Carnes
Looks like a permissions problem in the archives: /usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/archives/public/ncihc-list On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 17:32, William R. Dickson wrote: > At least, it looks weird to me. No lockfiles are present. I once had > something like this happen with a corrupt .msg file,

[Mailman-Users] Weird lock error

2003-05-29 Thread William R . Dickson
At least, it looks weird to me. No lockfiles are present. I once had something like this happen with a corrupt .msg file, but I tried removing all files from the qfiles directory, and the problem recurs with all new mail. This began after moving the lists to a new server, running FreeBSD 4.8