[Mailman-Users] nightly_htdig error

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 11:17, Will Froning wrote:
> /usr/bin/sort: mkstemp error: Permission denied
> htmerge: Word sort failed

Notice that the error is coming from the "sort" program which apparently
is being called by htdig.  Do your /tmp or /var/tmp directories exist
and have proper permissions?  Is there enough free space?  Depending on
the size of your archives, htdig can require a lot of space.  (The
'sort' program only uses temporary files when it runs low on memory,
too, so you might consider getting more RAM.)

> I get this error every night on a FreeBSD 4.6.2 box with Mailman 2.1.1
> with htdig patches. I found mention of it in the archives From Aug 2002,
> but no followup on the message.
> 
> I have done a "chown -R mailman:mailman /usr/local/mailman" yet no
> success.  Any help is appreciated.
> 

Also note that changing ownership to "mailman:mailman" isn't always
enough, because sometimes parts of mailman are run as root but are
setgid to mailman.  So you need to make sure that files have group write
permission as well.  You can run "bin/fix_perms -f "in your mailman
distribution which should fix the mailman permissions, but that won't
affect htdig and sort.

--Jeremy