Re: archive directory only has one message in it

["Søren Boll Overgaard" <boll+mlmmj@fork.dk>]

Hello,

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 07:50:31AM -0700, Jason Diamond wrote:
> > However, there is one thing you should
> > probably check, given the description of the problem: make sure the 
> > 'index'
> > file exists, and is writeable, since that appears to be what mlmmj uses to
> > keep track of the archive's last posting number (and thus, if it doesn't
> > exist, it probably thinks that it should write out '0', and does so... and 
> > if
> > it can't create the index file, well... lather, rinse, repeat). Did you 
> > check
> > your logfile to see if it reported anything?
> > 
> 
> I think this is the problem.
> 
> The index file does exist but it's owned by root:root (the user I was when I 
> ran mlmmj-make-ml) and not writable by anybody else.
> 
> I have exim launching the mlmmj-recieve program as nobody:nogroup since 
> that's what all of the files in my mailing list directory (except index) 
> were owned by. Could this be a bug in mlmmj-make-ml?

This indeed turned out to be the problem. The patched version of mlmmj-make-ml
in 1.2.5 failed to set proper permissions in $LISTDIR/index. I've fixed this in
version 1.2.8-3 which I have just uploaded to the Debian unstable archive. If
you would like a copy of the package before it hits the mirrors, please let me 
know in private mail.

Also, to avoid Debian specific bugs related to mlmmj-make-ml making it past the
Debian Bug Tracking System, the Debian version of mlmmj-make-ml now tells users
where to report bugs.

> I only have two log files in my mailing list directory: 
> mlmmj-maintd.lastrun.log and mlmmj.operation.log. Neither of them mentions 
> not being able to write to index.

I would like to second the request for this sort of information to appear as a
warning in the logs.

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