[Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1b2 installed and working (almost).

[Rob Brandt]

I've gotten Mailman 2.1b2 installed on my new linux server.  It's using 
Postfix as an MTA.  I can create lists, but an error is generated.  The 
list does exists, and I can edit it and everything.  But it seems that 
there's a problem with creating aliases for it.  See the error page pasted 
in below.

I suspect that it's a permissions problem, but at this late time of night, 
I can no longer see the forest for the trees.  Initially I did get in the 
infamous 'wanted uid 99, got 48' error.  Miraculously, I remember getting 
that when I installed v2.05 last summer, and the solution to run apache as 
uid/gid nobody.  Here's the error page:

Bug in Mailman version 2.1b2

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 (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 82, in run_main
     main()
   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 55, in main
     process_request(doc, cgidata)
   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 213, in 
process_request
     sys.modules[modname].create(mlist, cgi=1)
   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 225, in create
     _update_maps()
   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 46, in _update_maps
     raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr)
RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias 
/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted)





Python information:

Variable
Value

sys.version
2.1.1 (#1, Mar 10 2002, 09:02:09) [GCC 2.95.4 20010319 
(prerelease/franzo/20011204)]

sys.executable
/usr/bin/python2

sys.prefix
/usr

sys.exec_prefix
/usr

sys.path
/usr

sys.platform
linux2


Environment variables:

Variable
Value

DOCUMENT_ROOT
/home/duckbox/www/

SERVER_ADDR
12.44.119.16

HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING
deflate, gzip, x-gzip, identity, *;q=0

REMOTE_HOST
intranet-10-1-20-150.sb.101freeway.net

CONTENT_TYPE
application/x-www-form-urlencoded

REMOTE_ADDR
10.1.20.150

SERVER_SOFTWARE
Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) (Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.5 OpenSSL/0.9.6b PHP/4.1.2 
mod_perl/1.24_01

GATEWAY_INTERFACE
CGI/1.1

HTTP_COOKIE
testduckbox+admin=28020000006977d9ed3c732800000062613935333537623936343935356631363461333265383661376462313862386563626561633666; 
lang=eng; sid=7110cdeeed6568a604ee933cd532cf16

HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE
en

REQUEST_URI
/mailman/create

REMOTE_PORT
4267

SERVER_PORT
80

HTTP_CONNECTION
Keep-Alive, TE

HTTP_USER_AGENT
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98) Opera 6.0 [en]

HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET
windows-1252;q=1.0, utf-8;q=1.0, utf-16;q=1.0, iso-8859-1;q=0.6, *;q=0.1

HTTP_ACCEPT
text/html, image/png, image/jpeg, image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, */*

HTTP_TE
deflate, gzip, chunked, identity, trailers

HTTP_COOKIE2
$Version="1"

QUERY_STRING


SERVER_PROTOCOL
HTTP/1.1

CONTENT_LENGTH
142

HTTP_HOST
www.duckbox.org

REQUEST_METHOD
POST

SERVER_SIGNATURE
Apache/1.3.22 Server at www.duckbox.org Port 80

SCRIPT_NAME
/mailman/create

SERVER_ADMIN
root at localhost

SCRIPT_FILENAME
/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/create

PYTHONPATH
/usr/local/mailman

HTTP_REFERER
http://www.duckbox.org/mailman/create

SERVER_NAME
www.duckbox.org