[Mailman-Users] README.POSTFIX

Todd Freedom_Lover at pobox.com
Thu Mar 13 20:07:59 CET 2003


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Duke wrote:
> RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias
> /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted)
>
> The above paths are correct.  Looking in data/alises, the aliases were
> added fine.  Anyone know why I'd get that error?  I'm thinking it has to
> do with user:group permissions.

You would be correct.  The aliases and aliases.db files should be owner and
group mailman.  Mine look like this:

$ ls -l aliases*
- -rw-rw----    1 mailman  mailman      5.6k Mar 13 14:03 aliases
- -rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman       12k Mar 13 14:03 aliases.db

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