On 9/9/05, Joel Aelwyn <joel@lightbearer.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> My copy, from the same source but hand-built to handle a few other tweaks
> (like my variant of "support characters other than + as a separator", 
> which I
> need to tweak slightly given something pointed out on the list), certainly
> doesn't appear to have this issue. 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?

I didn't realize that index needed to be written to by the user running 
mlmmj-receive. This is definitely good to know.

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.

Thanks!

-- 
Jason