[Mailman-Users] Error using postfix and mailman

[Jon Carnes]

When setup properly (using the README.POSTFIX) then /usr/sbin/postalias
(Postfix) will access the alias files as user mailman.

The files in /usr/local/mailman/data/.. should be set as:
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman      4919 Feb 11 17:08 aliases
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman     12288 Feb 11 17:08 aliases.db

Good Luck - Jon Carnes

On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 15:39, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 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.
> 
>