Bug 198124

Summary:	binaries should not be under /usr/lib/mailman/bin
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Russell Coker <russell>
Component:	mailman	Assignee:	Tomas Smetana <tsmetana>
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Description Russell Coker 2006-07-09 23:35:00 UTC

From the FHS: "/usr/lib includes object files, libraries, and internal 
binaries that are not intended to be executed directly by users or shell 
scripts".

Some of the programs in /usr/lib/mailman/bin are supposed to be directly 
executed by the sys-admin, one example is mmsitepass.  The mmsitepass program 
belongs in /usr/sbin (or at least a sym-link so that the sys-admin can run it 
without doing an "rpm -ql mailman|grep mmsitepass" to find it first).

Comment 1 Tomas Smetana 2007-05-02 10:00:08 UTC

From the online documentation of Mailman
(http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/site.html): "You must run these scripts
from the bin directory in the Mailman installation location...".

I agree Mailman is not FHS compliant much. But finding what script under what
circumstances can be run from outside the Mailman installation directory is not
worth the effort -- the only thing we can get are distro-specific issues. Also
note that all the binaries have (and must have) sgid on.