[Mailman-Users] Problems with Mailman

[mburton at jo.birdsense.com]

Hi folks,

I am giving Mailman 2.8 a try again after about a couple years 
away from it.  It looks like it has matured quite a bit in that time 
and I am excited to reevaluate it.  I have installed it with very little 
trouble on the surface.  I have created a test list called BCtest 
without problem and accessed the admin pages with no problems.  
The problem comes in when I try to subscribe to the list.  Any help 
will be greatly appreciated.

System - Linux Mandrake 7.2
Kernel   - 2.2.17-21mdksecure
Postfix version - not readily available (ok, I'm braindead after 
working all day with Win2K issues <G>)
Apache version - 1.3.12

I am getting an error at the commad line level that reads:

Security: denied hard link to 1015:509 for UID 99, EUID 99, 
process python:22213

User ID 1015 is mailman
Group ID 509 is mailman
UID 99 is nobody (apache runs as user nobody)
EUID 99 is also nobody (again, this is what apache runs as)
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The traceback log contains the following:

Jan 09 17:45:58 2002 admin(22099): 
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
admin(22099): [----- Mailman 
Version: 2.0.8 -----]
admin(22099): [----- Traceback ------]
admin(22099): Traceback 
(most recent call last):
admin(22099):   File "/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 96, in 
run_main
admin(22099):     main()
admin(22099):   File 
"../Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 154, in main
admin(22099):     ChangeOptions(mlist, category, cgidata, doc)
admin(22099):   File "../Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 899, in 
ChangeOptions
admin(22099):     digest, send_welcome_msg)
admin(22099):   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 
1124, in ApprovedAddMembers
admin(22099):     self.Save()
admin(22099):   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 
857, in Save
admin(22099):     self.__save(dict)
admin(22099):   File 
"/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 833, in __save
admin(22099):     os.link(fname, fname_last)
admin(22099): OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted
admin(22099): [----- Python Information -----]
admin(22099): sys.version    = 2.2 (#1, Jan  9 2002, 06:41:05)
[GCC 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)]
admin(22099): sys.executable = /usr/bin/python
admin(22099): sys.prefix     = /usr/local
admin(22099): sys.exec_prefix= /usr/local
admin(22099): sys.path       = /usr/local
admin(22099): sys.platform   = linux2
admin(22099): [----- Environment Variables -----]
admin(22099): 	HTTP_ACCEPT: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, 
image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, 
application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, */*
admin(22099): 	CONTENT_TYPE: application/x-www-form-
urlencoded
admin(22099): 	HTTP_REFERER: 
http://www.birdsense.com/mailman/admin/bctest/members
admin(22099): 	SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix)
admin(22099): 	PYTHONPATH: /home/mailman
admin(22099): 	SCRIPT_FILENAME: /home/mailman/cgi-bin/admin
admin(22099): 	SERVER_ADMIN: root at jo.birdsense.com
admin(22099): 	SCRIPT_NAME: /mailman/admin
admin(22099): 	SERVER_SIGNATURE: 
<ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.12 Server at www.birdsense.com Port 
80</ADDRESS>

admin(22099): 	REQUEST_METHOD: POST
admin(22099): 	HTTP_HOST: www.birdsense.com
admin(22099): 	PATH_INFO: /bctest/members
admin(22099): 	SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1
admin(22099): 	QUERY_STRING: 
admin(22099): 	REQUEST_URI: /mailman/admin/bctest/members
admin(22099): 	CONTENT_LENGTH: 102
admin(22099): 	HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; 
MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)
admin(22099): 	HTTP_CONNECTION: Keep-Alive
admin(22099): 	HTTP_COOKIE: 
bctest:admin=280200000069eff13c3c7328000000666365376237333
53661633337316561616532333230366461386438616164303639623
065303063; birdclick=lastv0:978023299&lastv1:978023299&vpage:0
admin(22099): 	SERVER_NAME: www.birdsense.com
admin(22099): 	REMOTE_ADDR: 10.10.10.2
admin(22099): 	REMOTE_PORT: 1130
admin(22099): 	HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-us
admin(22099): 	PATH_TRANSLATED: 
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/bctest/members
admin(22099): 	SERVER_PORT: 80
admin(22099): 	GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1
admin(22099): 	HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflate
admin(22099): 	SERVER_ADDR: 64.24.214.247
admin(22099): 	DOCUMENT_ROOT: /usr/local/apache/htdocs