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["Rustam" <address@concealed>]

Hello.

My problem is very similar to the one described here. When I try to remove 
closed list I get the following error in sympa.log:

Jun  5 11:56:30 mailer wwsympa[19817]: List::remove_aliases() Failed to 
remove aliases ; status 9 : Inappropriate ioctl for device

As you see I have "status 9" and not "status 6" as below and this solution 
doesn't help me.


Best regards,
Rustam.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Andrews [mailto:address@concealed]
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 9:16 PM
> To: Thomas Berry; address@concealed
> Subject: [sympa-users] RE: Re: updating aliases
> 
> I had the same problem.  It is because the newer version of sendmail
> only
> allow root to update the aliases files.
> 
> I added this to the Sympa Wiki, but it seems to have gotten lost in the
> move
> to the new Sympa.org site.  Lucky for me we use the Doku wiki here, so
> here
> is the info again if some one wants to put it back up there:
> 
> ===== Getting sympa to run the aliases update as root =====
> 
> In the newer versions of sendmail only root can run the newaliases
> command
> -- so I needed to get sympa to run the aliases updater as root.  I
> based
> this solution on the fcgi wrapper solution.  This is based on the
> folders
> and files name in my Sympa install, yours may be different.
> 
> I was able to get it to work by moving /var/sympa/sbin/alias_manager.pl
> to
> /var/sympa/sbin/alias_manager_sudo_wrapper.pl, then I created a new
> PERl
> script /var/sympa/sbin/allias_wrapper.pl:
> 
> <code perl>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> exec '/usr/bin/sudo', '-u', 'root',
> '/home/sympa/sbin/alias_manager_sudo_wrapper.pl',
> "$ARGV[0]","$ARGV[1]","$ARGV[2]","$ARGV[3]";
> /var/sympa/sbin/
> </code>
> 
> My PERL skillz are weak, so some one might have a better way of passing
> the
> arguments in better way (using @ARGV resulted in all the arguments
> becoming
> one instead of descreate arguments when they are passed to
> alias_manager_sudo_wrapper.pl).
> 
> You need to make sure your sympa aliases file has the following perms:
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 sympa root   6003 Jan  8 12:05 sympa_aliases
> 
> Sendmail will not like it if the file is group or everyone writable,
> but
> does not seem to care who actaully owns it.
> 
> I also made the following change to /etc/sudoers file:
> 
> sympa host=(root)
> NOPASSWD:/home/sympa/sbin/alias_manager_sudo_wrapper.pl
> 
> I also made sure that the sympa user is not a nologin user.  It needs
> to be
> able have shell access to be able to sudo.
> 
> 
> 
> ---
>  Chris Andrews
>  Boston College
>  Collaboration Team
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Berry [mailto:address@concealed]
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 11:56 AM
> To: address@concealed
> Subject: [sympa-users] Re: updating aliases
> 
> 
> False alarm.   setting permissions to 4755 did not work.  Neither did
> 6755.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
> I found the answer.
> 
> *nix permissions on ~sympa/bin/aliaswrapper must be sticky with chmod
> 4755.
> 
> Thomas
> 
> Thomas Berry wrote:
> > revision: 5.3b.3
> >
> >   I'm trying to resolve a problem I'm having with sympa's ability to
> > manage aliases.  The sympa process is able to update aliases when it
> > adds a list's aliases as part of the automatic list creation process.
> >
> > Apr  4 13:29:05 dev-list sympa(creation)[8681]:
> admin::install_aliases :
> > Aliases installed successfully
> >
> >
> >   But, when wwsympa is used to remove close a list, it fails to
> execute
> > newaliases:
> >
> >
> > Apr  5 08:12:24 dev-list wwsympa[12127]: Failed to remove aliases ;
> > status 6 :
> >
> >
> >   Both Sympa and Apache are running as user: sympa.
> >
> > Thomas
>