[Mailman-Users] Access problem..

[Richard Barrett]

On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 10:13  am, Anders Norrbring wrote:

> Here's one of the mails I get every 5 minutes from my server:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 274, in ?
>     main()
>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 249, in main
>     lock.lock(timeout=0.5)
>   File 
> "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.1-build/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py",
> line 238, in lock
>   File 
> "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.1-build/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py",
> line 415, in __write
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/var/lib/mailman/locks/gate_news.lock.berit.6176.0'
>

You could try running Mailman's check_perms program. Looks from the 
paths in the traceback above as though it could be in 
/usr/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms. Run it with the -h option to get it 
to print its usage.

> And when I look in '/var/mailman/locks' that dir is empty!
> Also, in '/var/tmp' there's only one entry, a subdir named 'vi.recover'
>
> There's something wrong, but I don't know where to start looking.  It's
> installed on a SuSE system based on United Linux 1.0 and the mailman 
> package
> is a SuSE distributed one.
>
> Anders Norrbring
> Norrbring Consulting