[Mailman-Users] RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation notpermitted)

[Todd]

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Shannon M. Anderson wrote:
> I am in the process of seting up a new mailman server on RH 8.0 using
> postfix as the MTA.  This is the first time I have used postfix and the
> aliasdb.
> After i configured mailman and completed the installs I tried to add a
> list via the web-admin and received a error -->
>
> RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias
> /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted) 
>
> I assume this is a permissions problem with mailman tring to run
> postalias? (but am not sure) Has anyone ran across this and if so how did
> you get around it.

It is likely a permissions problem.  Check your perms on
/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases and aliases.db.  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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