[Mailman-Users] Permission problems
janis at camp.lv
janis at camp.lv
Tue Aug 27 10:29:12 CEST 2002
Hi!
It could be that there is problem with the cron. Mailman's cron jobs has to be
executed w user/group mailman and seems that they are not.
Janis Putrams
> Hi!
>
> I've got a Mailman problem. Surprised? :)
> After a reboot the mailing-lists stopped working.
> Mailing a specific person is still working though. I
> use exim and Mailman. Let's start from the
> beginning. This line is in /etc/inetd.conf:
>
> smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs
>
>
> When I send a mail to selinux-drift mailing-list I
> get this in /var/log/exim/mainlog
>
> 2002-08-25 22:50:24 17j4L2-0007Bo-00 <=
> timte878 at student.liu.se H=igloo.df.lth.se
> [194.47.250.47] U=root P=esmtp S=1243
> id=399a03e0aa.3e0aa399a0 at student.liu.se
> 2002-08-25 22:50:26 17j4L2-0007Bo-00 =>
> |/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post selinux-drift
> <selinux-drift at se.linux.org> D=system_aliases
> T=address_pipe
> 2002-08-25 22:50:26 17j4L2-0007Bo-00 Completed
>
> I don't know what should be here, but it seems to be
> ok. I now assume that Mailman got the mail that it's
> supposed to forward to everyone on the list. Right?
> The mailman configuration is:
> selinux-drift: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post
> selinux-drift"
>
> /home/mailman/bin/check_perms returns "No problems
> found"
>
>
> The mailman logs
>
> /home/mailman/logs/qrunner:
> Aug 25 13:43:03 2002 (13379) Could not acquire
> qrunner lock
>
> /home/mailman/logs/post shows all sendings that
> succeeded. There's no entry from Aug 21.
> /home/mailman/logs/bounce shows no entry after Aug 18.
>
> The most interesting is /home/mailman/logs/error. I
> attached it. The last line says:
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/home/mailman/qfiles/482cxxxxxxxxxxx.db'
>
> Seems there's something wrong with the permissions.
>
> $ ls -ld qfiles
> drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 28672 Aug 25 23:29 qfiles/
>
> In the qfiles directory every .db and .msg file has:
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 list mailman
>
> Anyone have any clue what's wrong here?
>
> Cheers,
> Tim
>
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