[Mailman-Users] Access problem..

[Richard Barrett]

On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 01:24  pm, Anders Norrbring wrote:

> Richard,
> Thanks.. :)  A -f fixed quite some errors, but still I get this in 
> e-mail
> from the 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.20898.0'
>

Then I guess you will have to check what uid/gid has write permissions 
over the /var/lib/mailman/locks/ directory and compare this for 
compatibilty  with the uid that the Mailman crontab has been installed 
under.

I would expect then both to be the 'mailman' uid (as decided by the 
installer when Mailman was configured) but plainly they cannot be 
compatible or you would not have a permissions failure when the cron 
job is (presumably) trying to create a lock file in the directory.

>
> Still there's no directory in /var/tmp
>
> Anders Norrbring
>
>
> -> -----Original Message-----
> -> From: Richard Barrett [mailto:r.barrett at openinfo.co.uk]
> -> Sent: den 13 augusti 2003 12:44
> -> To: Anders Norrbring
> -> Cc: Mailman users
> -> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Access problem..
> ->
> ->
> -> 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
>
>
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