[Mailman-Users] nightly_htdig error

[Will Froning]

Found it.

/usr/local/share/htdig/common
/usr/local/share/htdig/database

Were root:wheel, once I changed them and the dir contents to
mailman:mailman all worked as planned.

Thanks for the help.

Will

On 06 Mar 2003 15:44:37 -0500
Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp at pobox.com> wrote:

> 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
> 


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