[Mailman-Users] Messages silently disappearing

[Wes Morriston]

I did as you suggested.  All the directories in /home/mailman are now
owned by mailman and all have the g+s setting.  I took the +s off of
/usr/bin/python.  The result?  Messages silently disappear as before. 
Put the +s back on python, and they don't disappear.

Something clearly has the wrong ownership and/or permissions, but I just
don't know what!  

Frustrated,

Wes


Christopher Lindsey wrote:
> 
> >    drwxrwsr-x   2 root  mailman       512 Feb  9 17:37 data
> >
> > That is exactly how mailman installed itself.  (I was root when I did
> > the install.)
> 
> Yes, I had the same problem.
> 
> > I then did a
> >
> >    chown -R mailman .
> >
> > in /home/mailman.
> 
> This will probably unset the g+s setting on all directories.  You
> need to set it back:
> 
>    cd ~mailman
>    chown -R mailman.mailman .
>    find . -type d -exec chmod g+s {} \;
> 
> > The following, I discovered, does cause the messages to be delivered.
> >
> >    chmod +s /usr/bin/python
> >
> > I hope it is not too dangerous to run python as root.
> 
> Ummm, I would undo that.
> 
> Chris
> 
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