[gnu.org #1250610] Mailman file ownership problems

[Ian Kelling via RT]

On Fri Nov 03 15:16:52 2017, rwp wrote:
> Hello Sysadmin,
> 
> Francisco Vila CC'd has reported a permission problem due to ownership
> when trying to edit the html for the lilypond-es mailing list.
> 
> The problem seems to be an ownership problem on lists.
> 
> lists:/var/log/mailman$ ll /var/lib/mailman/lists/lilypond-
> es/es/listinfo.html
> -rw-r--r-- 1 list list 4513 2010-01-01 20:38
> /var/lib/mailman/lists/lilypond-es/es/listinfo.html
> 
> In order to write it from the web it needs to be user www-data.  For
> example here is a working listing.
> 
> lists:/var/log/mailman$ ll
> /var/lib/mailman/lists/coreutils/en/listinfo.html
> -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data list 4181 2017-11-03 14:55
> /var/lib/mailman/lists/coreutils/en/listinfo.html
> 
> The full details are forwarded below.
> 
> Could you repair the ownership of that list?  It probably needs more
> than just that one file changed.  Please double check the directory
> against a known good list and fix the set of whatever ownership needs
> to be adjusted.
> 
> And then please check the entire collection of mailing lists to catch
> any others that are also like this?
> 
> Thanks!
> Bob
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Francisco Vila <address@hidden> -----
> 
> Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 11:56:40 +0100
> From: Francisco Vila <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [savannah-help-public] Mailman bug after editing HTML
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am the maintainer of a list in lists.gnu.org. I'd like to contact
> the
> webmaster of lists.gnu.org because I reach an error page after trying
> to
> edit some code in the presentation page.
> 
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/edithtml/lilypond-es/listinfo.html
> 
> Bug in Mailman version 2.1.21
> 
> We're sorry, we hit a bug!
> 
> Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of
> traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited,
> but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs.
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> 
> Please forgive me if this is not the right place to contact the
> webmaster.
> 
> Cheers,

Hi Francisco,

Thank you for the report. We are planning to upgrade mailman in the next
week or two and hope to fix this as part of that upgrade. I will let you
know when it is fixed.

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