[Mailman-Users] [newbie]Need help with mailman on Linux

[Brian]

Thanks!!

	That was really stupid of me! 

				Brian

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Brian Gilman		
Scientific Programmer
WhiteHead Institute 
MIT

On Sun, 21 May 2000, David Smead wrote:

> Brian,
> 
> It's a permission problem with the mailman user.  The install instructions
> say what to do to get those permission right.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> David Smead
> http://www.amplepower.com.
> http://www.ampletech.com.
> 
> On Sun, 21 May 2000, Brian wrote:
> 
> > Hello all!
> > 
> > 	I followed the instructions for mailman, set up "test" and then
> > opened my web browser to find this error message:
> > 
> > --------------------------------Snip-----------------------------------
> > 	Bug in Mailman version 1.1
> > 
> > We're sorry, we hit a bug!
> > 
> > If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of
> > this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what
> > happened. Thanks! 
> > 
> > Traceback:
> > 
> > 
> > Traceback (innermost last):
> >   File "/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 89, in run_main
> >     immediate=1)
> >   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Logging/StampedLogger.py", line 48, in
> > __init__
> >     Logger.__init__(self, category, nofail, immediate)
> >   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 40, in __init__
> >     self.__get_f()
> >   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 63, in __get_f
> >     reraise()
> >   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 55, in __get_f
> >     f = self.__fp = open(self.__filename, 'a+')
> > IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/mailman/logs/error'
> > 
> > 
> > -----------------------------/snip---------------------------------
> > 
> > 
> > I am not a python programmer but, reading these entries, I think that
> > mailman may not have the proper permissions to write to either syslog or
> > /home/mailman/logs??
> > 
> > Is this a correct assumption?? If so, how can I fix this? 
> > 
> > Thanks in advance!
> > 
> > 					Brian
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ---------------------------------
> > Brian Gilman		
> > Scientific Programmer
> > WhiteHead Institute 
> > MIT
> > 
> > 
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