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Hi,

after installing the most recent mailman on my system - AND after
following all steps in the INSTALL as correct as possible, I keep
getting the following error messages:
Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): Traceback (most recent call last):
Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 222, in ?
Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): main()
Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 203, in main
Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): process_lists(lock)
Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 140, in process_lists
Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0)
Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 79, in __init__
Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): self.Load()
Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 892, in Load
Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): dict, e = self.__load(dbfile)
Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 869, in __load
Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): fp = open(dbfile)
Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): IOError : [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/mailman/lists/test/config.db'
Actually the permissions of that very file vary from all other mailman
permissions:
catbert:/home/mailman/lists/test # la
total 48
drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Jul 17 18:07 .
drwxrwsr-x 3 mailman mailman 4096 Jul 17 17:56 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 1706 Jul 17 17:56 admindbpreamble.html
-rw-rw---- 1 wwwrun mailman 2796 Jul 17 18:07 config.db
-rw-rw---- 1 wwwrun mailman 2796 Jul 17 18:07 config.db.last
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 189 Jul 17 17:56 handle_opts.html
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 1026 Jul 17 17:56 headfoot.html
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 3136 Jul 17 17:56 listinfo.html
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 0 Jul 17 17:56 next-digest
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 0 Jul 17 17:56 next-digest-topics
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 4106 Jul 17 17:56 options.html
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 1169 Jul 17 17:56 roster.html
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 198 Jul 17 17:56 subscribe.html
Where "wwwrun" is the user under which Apache runs on my system.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

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  • Ryan Hammond at Jul 19, 2002 at 7:01 pm ⇧
    Wow, what luck. I solved this problem on my own system just today. ;P
    You have quite a few options presented to you, depending on your system
    setup.
    What I ended up doing was just changing the user apache runs under. Quick,
    easy, one file to change. Just jed /etc/apache/httpd.conf and somewhere in
    the "Main" configuration, there are 2 lines of User ____ and Group ____.
    (These lines were numbered 292 and 293 for me, just under the port)
    I just changed User to mailman, and with my system setup, thats worked fine.
    After you change the line, you need to run: apachectl restart to makeit load
    the CGI properly. **NOTE!!!* I had no need to, and you probably have no need
    to change the GROUP that apache runs under. It caused problems for me and
    might for you too.
    Also, depending on your mailman install, you may not have given wrapper
    access to it under those names, so you could have to tinker with Defaults.py
    or recompiling to get everything in line.


    The reason your file changes ownership is because Mailman is doing a very
    silly thing. Every time it updates the config.db file (which I believe is
    what holds ALL list configuration, members, etc) it renames the current
    config.db to config.db.old and then makes a NEW config.db file. Because it
    creates a new one, whatever program you're running that altered the list, be
    it apache, console, Zope, or whatever else you've got lying around, its
    gunna change the owner to whatever user that runs under.

    Because anything that alters it is going to take ownership of it, you can
    either force other programs to run as whatever user / group mailman is
    under, or you can recompile mailman to be able to read those users/groups
    files as well, with the set-group-id, set-cgi-id or whatever functions that
    are mentioned on www.list.org's installation page.(I didn't try that, so if
    you do, I couldn't help you) Tinker and good luck.
    From: Michael Keukert <pmk at scp.de>
    To: mailman-users at python.org
    Subject: [Mailman-Users] Crontab problems
    Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:12:22 +0200

    Hi,

    after installing the most recent mailman on my system - AND after
    following all steps in the INSTALL as correct as possible, I keep
    getting the following error messages:
    Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): Traceback (most recent call last):
    Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): File
    "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 222, in ?
    Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): main()
    Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): File
    "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 203, in main
    Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): process_lists(lock)
    Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): File
    "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 140, in process_lists
    Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): mlist =
    MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0)
    Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): File
    "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 79, in __init__
    Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): self.Load()
    Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): File
    "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 892, in Load
    Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): dict, e =
    self.__load(dbfile)
    Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): File
    "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 869, in __load
    Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): fp = open(dbfile)
    Jul 17 18:10:02 2002 gate_news(28727): IOError : [Errno 13] Permission
    denied: '/home/mailman/lists/test/config.db'

    Actually the permissions of that very file vary from all other mailman
    permissions:
    catbert:/home/mailman/lists/test # la
    total 48
    drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Jul 17 18:07 .
    drwxrwsr-x 3 mailman mailman 4096 Jul 17 17:56 ..
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 1706 Jul 17 17:56
    admindbpreamble.html
    -rw-rw---- 1 wwwrun mailman 2796 Jul 17 18:07 config.db
    -rw-rw---- 1 wwwrun mailman 2796 Jul 17 18:07 config.db.last
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 189 Jul 17 17:56 handle_opts.html
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 1026 Jul 17 17:56 headfoot.html
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 3136 Jul 17 17:56 listinfo.html
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 0 Jul 17 17:56 next-digest
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 0 Jul 17 17:56
    next-digest-topics
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 4106 Jul 17 17:56 options.html
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 1169 Jul 17 17:56 roster.html
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 198 Jul 17 17:56 subscribe.html
    Where "wwwrun" is the user under which Apache runs on my system.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks!

    --
    Michael Keukert * SCP Software GmbH * http://www.scp.de
    Auf der Huels 120 * D-52068 Aachen * Tel: 0241-96830-0 * Fax: -50
    PGP Fingerprint: A4A8 EA96 166D 736D 14E8 7D86 2784 CA16



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