Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 135073
/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfy.py needs to be written, move to /var
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:51 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041002 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: To configure mailman, you need to enter hostnames into mm_cfg.py which now lives in /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/ In addition, /usr/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms reports errors in permissions for a couple of files, including /usr/lib/mailman/bin (wants it to be 02775). Shouldn't files that need modification should be in /var? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mailman-2.1.5-21 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install mailman 2. need to modify mm_cfg.py 3. run /usr/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms Additional info:
Sorry, other file reported by check_perms: /usr/lib/mailman/cron/crontab.in bad group (has: root, expected mailman)
Thank you for the bug report. These are all problems/issues that are being worked on as we speak. Other directories and files have since been moved for better FHS compliance. You raise a good point about mm_cfg.py. It's really not clear to me where this should live because its both an config file AND executable code (an unfortunate implementation choice). In theory it should be in /etc/mailman as a config file, but /etc shouldn't have any executable code in it, nor should it be in /var because /var shouldn't have any executable code either. The executable code of mailman should be in /usr/lib/mailman, and in fact the imports that Mailman uses to find mm_cfg expect to find it there with all the other mailman code, yet its a user writable config file! I'm undecided at the moment how to deal with this. Initial thinking on my part is this is an unfortuante exception we're just going to have to live with and hope MM 3.0 does a better job of partitioning the file set.
BTW, I'm almost done with a new mailman rpm that attempts to be fully FHS compliant (with the eception of mm_cfg), no errors are reported by check_perms with this version. Would you be interesting in beta testing it?
yup! Let me know when/where :) tom
Lots of config files in /etc are executable shell scripts. There are /etc/rc.d/init.d files and config files that set environment variables such as /etc/selinux/config . /etc seems a good place for this.
I'm seconding the idea of moving it under /etc/mailman and have /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py simlink to it (the reverse situation than now on FC3). It also isn't an executable file, it has neither the required permissions, nor any magics in the first line. It is just imported as a module and you can certainly inject code into mailman that way, but so are all config files under /etc/sysconfig, you could embed nasty sh code there, too :)
/etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py