[Mailman-Users] Error using postfix and mailman

[Phil Stracchino]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 04:39:29PM -0600, mmckenzie at unmc.edu wrote:
> I was trying to create a list via the cgi scripts but recieved the
> following error!
<snip>

>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 226, in create
>     _update_maps()
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 47, 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)

The ownership and/or permissions on /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases.db
are incorrect.  Make sure that the user or group that the CGI runs under
(typically the gid you set in --with-cgi-gid) has write permissions to
/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases.db.


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