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See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. _SUMMARY_ X-Headers-End: 1MowzE-0000hT-9k Cc: Gerald Livingston Subject: [Lurker-users] Fetchmail and lurker was Re: Permissions errors X-BeenThere: lurker-users@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: Lurker Project Support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:16:14 -0000 Gerald Livingston ha scritto: > On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:42:03 +0200 > legolas558 wrote: > >> Gerald Livingston ha scritto: >>> I am having GREAT difficulty getting lurker to automagically add new >>> messages to the archive on my Debian system. >>> >>> Every time I send a message to the archive address I get this in my >>> mail logs: >>> >>> input/output error. Command output: /var/lib/lurker/db: Permission >>> denied >>> >>> >>> Just a permission error, right? But, here are the methods I've >>> tried to use: >>> >>> >>> 1. alias bska-archive: "| /usr/bin/lurker-index -l buskatiers -m" >>> >>> 2. .forward with "| /usr/bin/lurker-index -l buskatiers -m" >>> >>> They both fail. bska-archive *IS* a real user on the system that is >>> a member of the lurker group. If I 'su - bska-archive' then run >>> lurker-index manually on a mbox file it imports the message just >>> fine so bska-archive *DOES* have correct permissions. >>> >>> /var/lib/lurker drwxrwsr-x 2 root lurker 4096 2009-09-18 11:18 >>> >>> from /etc/group: >>> lurker:x:106:mail,postfix,www-data,ecartis,bska-archive >>> >>> I'm not using procmail or maildrop on this system. >>> >> Hi Gerald, >> >> question here is: *WHO* is sending data through a pipe to >> lurker-index? Can you check that? >> >> I remember I had many similar issues and fixed them by creating a >> simple MDA. >> >> Best regards, >> -- >> Daniele > > I created a simple pipe shell script: > > #!/bin/bash > echo $LOGNAME >> /home/testlogname > > I made it 777 > > I made /home/testlogname 666 > > I changed my aliases file to > > bska-archive: "| /home/bska-archive/elogname" > > I sent a message. It caused the script to write > > bska-archive > > into the log file./home/bska-archive/elogname > I then created another alias > > supertest: "| /home/bska-archive/elogname" > > supertest does not exist as a real user on the system. > > It still wrote "supertest" into /home/testlogname so it is calling the > script as the user to whom the message is sent. > > So, I chowned /home/bska-archive/elogname to root:lurker and chmod 770 > the script and 660 the file it writes to. > > Now I get a permission denied message again even though the > bska-archive user is a member of the lurker group and both files are > 660 so they should be writable by the group members. > > I made the writable file 666 again and it still fails. The script > MUST be 777 world writable for postfix to deliver to it. > > That's ugly and shouldn't be happening. > > I'm going to try one or two more things then I need to wipe the lurker > install completely and start fresh (I've hosed my database with test > entries anyway). > > I was trying hard to avoid having to use yet another delivery option > like procmail. I wanted to be able to just add an alias and go. > Hi Gerald, it has elapsed quite some time but I remember I also tried this approach, then had to abandon it because it simply did not work. I am no linux/mail guru but I will tell you how I got the job done (it took a week to me). Forget about the standard mail program and/or the mail aliases, I couldn't get it working with lurker. 1) install lurker, once its user/group is created also create a home directory for him, and set such home directory to owner lurker/lurker mode 0755 2) install fetchmail http://fetchmail.berlios.de/ version 6.3.8 (or the latest one you can get) 3) create /home/lurker/.fetchmailrc mode 0600 with this content: poll mail.example.com: # server options with nodns, with protocol pop3, # user options user mailbox@example.com there, is, lurker here, with nokeep, with mda '/usr/bin/lurker-index -l buskatiers -m', # with fetchall, with stripcr, with password 'yourpasswordhere'; 4) now create a cron job, run every 15 minutes for example, and have it run this script (lurker-fetch.sh) #!/bin/bash ## Update lurker mailing lists archives ## @author legolas558 ## # ## TODO: check that this script is not already running, exit if yes LISTS_USER=lurker APACHE_USER=www-data LURKER_DATA=/var/lib/lurker LURKER_WWW=/var/www/lurker chown -R $LISTS_USER.$APACHE_USER $LURKER_DATA $LURKER_WWW && \ echo "/usr/bin/fetchmail -s | sed '/^$/d' /usr/bin/lurker-prune " | su - $LISTS_USER RV=$? chown -R $APACHE_USER.$APACHE_USER $LURKER_DATA $LURKER_WWW exit $RV I know that in this approach lurker-fetch.sh is run by root, but it uses 'su' to run as the proper lurker user. Yes, all this looks like bad hackery and sorcery, but it was the only way I could get it working and I am sharing it with you hoping that it will be useful. If you think something is not clear just ask me, I made the thing some time ago but I can go check the live system for some detail. P.S. in my experience, fetchmail *works*, the others deserve the trash can Best reards, -- Daniele C. (aka legolas558) > Thanks, > > Gerald > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf > _______________________________________________ > Lurker-users mailing list > Lurker-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lurker-users >