[Mailman-Users] LockFile permissions denied???

[Richard Barrett]

On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 08:54 PM, Ryan Day wrote:

> i installed the latest version of mailman on Apache and use Sendmail 
> as the
> MTA, but when the automated process tries to run mailman it comes back 
> with
> an error.
>
> From: root at galadriel.educara.net (Cron Daemon)
> To: rday at galadriel.educara.net
> Subject: Cron <rday at galadriel> /usr/bin/python -S
> /var/mailman/cron/gate_news
> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/rday>
> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=rday>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/var/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 274, in ?
>     main()
>   File "/var/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 249, in main
>     lock.lock(timeout=0.5)
>   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 238, in lock
>     self.__write()
>   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 415, in __write
>     fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w')
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/var/mailman/locks/gate_news.lock.gal
> adriel.educara.net.18390.0'
>
>
> i checked all the permissions and the owner of all the files has write
> privilages.  the owner of them is mailman, so i don't see how 
> Permissions to
> write are being denied.  any advice?

 From the notification (To: rday at galadriel.educara.net ) it looks as 
though you may have installed the mailman crontab under your own user 
id.

If you did that might account for the problem.

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