[Mailman-Users] Need some help, lost messages, now getting "caught a bug error" on admin page

[arif]

I'm really hoping that someone can help me with this:
Mailman says that it's lost 4 messages.  There's no trace of them in
mailman/data, and in /mailman/logs/vette, they're all listed as
discarded posting -- does that mean that a list admin discarded them?
if so, then why do they appear as lost messages on the admin web page,
and is there any relationship to the bug message that's appearing at the
bottom of the admin requests page?

for what's worth, I'm running Mailman 2.0.5 on a Redhat 7.1 machine.
here's the error from the log:


<--begin snip from logs:>
Jun 15 10:57:37 2001 admin(27298):
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
admin(27298): [----- Mailman Version: 2.0.5 -----]
admin(27298): [----- Traceback ------]
admin(27298): Traceback (innermost last):
admin(27298):   File "/var/mailman//scripts/driver", line 96, in
run_main
admin(27298):     main()
admin(27298):   File "/var/mailman//Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 116,
in main
admin(27298):     mlist.Save()
admin(27298):   File "/var/mailman//Mailman/MailList.py", line 859, in
Save
admin(27298):     self.SaveRequestsDb()
admin(27298):   File "/var/mailman//Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 93, in
SaveRequestsDb
admin(27298):     self.__closedb()
admin(27298):   File "/var/mailman//Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 80, in
__closedb
admin(27298):     fp = open(self.__filename, 'w')
admin(27298): IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/var/mailman/lists/oc/request.db'
admin(27298): [----- Python Information -----]
admin(27298): sys.version    = 1.5.2 (#1, Aug 25 2000, 09:33:37)  [GCC
2.96 20000731 (experimental)]
admin(27298): sys.executable = /usr/bin/python
admin(27298): sys.prefix     = /usr
admin(27298): sys.exec_prefix= /usr
admin(27298): sys.path       = /usr
admin(27298): sys.platform   = linux-i386
<--end log snip>

any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks much, Arif

-- 
Arif Mamdani