[Mailman-Developers] glitch in 2.0 check_perms

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "CVR" == Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui@plaidworks.com> writes:

    CVR> Justfound a glitch in 2.0 check_perms. I was getting a
    CVR> failure on one of my lists when trying to process an admin
    CVR> request, because of a permission problem. I found that the
    CVR> listname/request.db file was mode 644 instead of 664, so that
    CVR> anything trying to open it for writing failed.

    CVR> I don't know how it got that way, none of the other lists
    CVR> have had this problem. But when I found the problem, I ran
    CVR> check_perms, and it reported no problem, which is clearly
    CVR> wrong...

I found the same thing recently when I was moving the python.org
lists.  I'll fix check_perms to look at request.db.

-Barry