[Mailman-Users] More permission problems

[Dan Richter]

I configured Mailman like this:
   ./configure --with-mail-gid=mailman
              --with-cgi-gid=apache --with-python=/usr/bin/python2
(Our web server runs as "apache", not "nobody".)

I recently found out that help requests sent to <list>-request at server don't 
get any reply. And my error logs contain a lot of entries like this:

Apr 09 06:50:14 2003 (24350) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 13] 
Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman/lists/flashinfo/en/verify.txt'
Apr 09 06:50:14 2003 (24350) Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 105, in _oneloop
     self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 155, in _onefile
     keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/CommandRunner.py", line 209, in 
_dispose
     res.process()
   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/CommandRunner.py", line 94, in 
process
     stop = self.do_command(cmd, args)
   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/CommandRunner.py", line 121, in 
do_command
     return handler.process(self, args)
   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Commands/cmd_subscribe.py", line 100, 
in process
     mlist.AddMember(userdesc, remote)
   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 817, in AddMember
     }, lang=lang, mlist=self)
   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 443, in maketext
     fp = open(filename)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
'/usr/local/mailman/lists/flashinfo/en/verify.txt'

I ran check_perms -f and this fixed the problem. But did I make a mistake 
during the installation?

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