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["Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>]

On 12/08/2021 12:55, Gerard Ranke (via sympa-users Mailing List) wrote:
> On 12-08-2021 11:07, David Carter wrote:
> > On 12/08/2021 09:29, Gerard Ranke (via sympa-users Mailing List) wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, I thought of that too, but all spool dirs (under ~sympa) are owned
> > > and writeable by sympa.
> >
> > > >       2021-08-11T21:20:10.602455+02:00 mail task_manager[29230]: message
> > > >       repeated 5 times: [ err main::#148 > Sympa::Spindle::spin#78 >
> > > >       Sympa::Spool::next#124 > Sympa::Spool::Task::_load#57 >
> > > >       Sympa::Spool::Task::_create_all_tasks#93 >
> > > > Sympa::List::get_lists#4562 >
> > > >       Sympa::List::new#179 > Sympa::List::load#697 Could not create
> > > > new lock]
> >
> > Sympa::List::load() [line 697 in Sympa 6.2.64] is attempting to lock the
> > config file on a specific list using:
> >
> >          ## Get a shared lock on config file first
> >          my $lock_fh =
> >              Sympa::LockedFile->new($self->{'dir'} . '/config', 5, '<');
> >          unless ($lock_fh) {
> >              $log->syslog('err', 'Could not create new lock');
> >              return undef;
> >          }
> >
> > in my case that would be:
> >
> > -rw-r----- 1 sympa sympa 620 Aug 11 08:15
> > /var/lib/sympa/list_data/test-dpc22/config
> >
> > Sympa::LockedFile() uses File::NFSLock(), so this creates a file named
> > "config.lock" using a hitching post algorithm (see File::NFSLock(3)).
> >
> > Consequently user sympa needs write access on the parent directory.
> >
> > In my case:
> >
> > drwxr-x--- 4 sympa sympa 4096 Aug 11 08:16
> > /var/lib/sympa/list_data/test-dpc22
> >
> > Hope that helps.
>
> Great, changing owner+group to sympa on all list_data entries did the
> trick! Thank you and Racke very much for your response!
> Best,
>
> gerard

Hello Gerard,

you are welcome. Maybe should add a check for these permissions to the Sympa 
commandline tool.

Regards
          Racke

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