[Mailman-Users] call for help - please

[Orion (Steve Pirk)]

I believe it is safe to comment this cron entry (gate_news).
From the crontab comments, it seems to be a method to send/receive
messages to news servers... Anyone else have some ideas?

Also, the path /usr/lib/mailman is not a typical place to put
user home dirs. Remember, "mailman" is a user on the system.
The user mailman should own /var/lib/mailman/* and should own
the file /var/spool/mail/mailman file with group mail or mailman.
(specific to linux, but hopefully you get the idea).

$ ls -l /var/spool/mail
-rw-------   1 mailman  mailman       543 Mar  5 22:12 mailman

Steve
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On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Nora Speer wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> again me:  I get errors and errors from the cron. This time anotherone. I
> guess some permissions are wrong. Can anyone tell me who should own the
> /var/spool/mailman and the /usr/lib/mailman (where I installed mailman)?
> And to which group they should be set ?  Beside that (or maybe because of
> that) the maildelivery is not working at all.
> 
> This is the errormessage from the cron:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 222, in ?
>     main()
>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 203, in main
>     process_lists(lock)
>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 140, in process_lists
>     mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0)
>   File "/var/tmp/mailman-root//usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line
> 79,
> in __init__
>   File "/var/tmp/mailman-root//usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line
> 891,
> in Load
>   File "/var/tmp/mailman-root//usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line
> 868,
> in __load
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/var/spool/mailman/lists/ntest/config.db'
> 
> Thank you.
> 
>         Nora
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