[Mailman-Users] Mailman on Mac OS X?

[Matthew Davis]

* Bill Whitacre (bw at his.com) wrote:
> Is anyone here using Mailman on OS X?  I've followed the instructions 
> put together by Kathleen Webb at 
> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg12599.html> 
> but keep getting this when I try to create a 'test' list:
> 
> > [ibb-80:~] mailman% /Applications/mailman/bin/newlist
> > Enter the name of the list: test
> > Enter the email of the person running the list: bw at his.com
> > Initial test password:
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/Applications/mailman/bin/newlist", line 220, in ?
> >     main()
> >   File "/Applications/mailman/bin/newlist", line 169, in main
> >     mlist.Create(listname, owner_mail, pw)
> >   File "/Applications/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 782, in Create
> >     Utils.MakeDirTree(os.path.join(mm_cfg.LIST_DATA_DIR, name))
> >   File "/Applications/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 265, in 
> > MakeDirTree
> >     os.mkdir(made_part, perms)
> > OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
> > '/Applications/mailman/lists/test'
> > [ibb-80:~] mailman%

Did you run check_perms?

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