[Mailman-Users] Re: Easy Install Instructions for Mailman and postfix

[pvmailman at nekophile.com]

Well, I rmlist'd the list and tried again with the new aliases db line in
my main.cf for postfix.  No dice.  However, I did encounter an error page
that might help.  What happens is I enter the info on the create list
page.  When I submit, I get a popup asking what user's password I'm trying
to change, so I select <>.  Next page is an error (below).  If I again try
the process, I'm told the list exists already (an error page indicates as
much).  FWIW, I also double-checked and I cannot get mail at
mail.nekophile.com in general (same error).

That error page:

Bug in Mailman version 2.1.2

We're sorry, we hit a bug!

If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of 
this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what 
happened. Thanks!
Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main
    main()
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 55, in main
    process_request(doc, cgidata)
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 217, in process_request
    sys.modules[modname].create(mlist, cgi=1)
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 232, in create
    _update_maps()
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 53, in _update_maps
    raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr)
RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias 
/var/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted)



Python information:

Variable	Value
sys.version	2.2.3 (#1, Oct 15 2003, 23:33:35) [GCC 3.3.1 20030930 (Red 
Hat Linux 3.3.1-6)]
sys.executable	/usr/bin/python
sys.prefix	/usr
sys.exec_prefix	/usr
sys.path	/usr
sys.platform	linux2

Environment variables:

Variable	Value
CONTENT_LENGTH 	137
CONTENT_TYPE 	application/x-www-form-urlencoded
HTTP_REFERER 	http://www.nekophile.com/mailman/create
SCRIPT_FILENAME 	/var/mailman/cgi-bin/create
PYTHONPATH 	/var/mailman
SERVER_SOFTWARE 	Apache/2.0.47 (Fedora)
SERVER_ADMIN 	root at localhost
SCRIPT_NAME 	/mailman/create
SERVER_SIGNATURE 	
Apache/2.0.47 (Fedora) Server at www.nekophile.com Port 80
REQUEST_METHOD 	POST
HTTP_HOST 	www.nekophile.com
HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE 	300
SERVER_PROTOCOL 	HTTP/1.1
QUERY_STRING 	
REQUEST_URI 	/mailman/create
HTTP_ACCEPT 	
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,*/*;q=0.1
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET 	ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
HTTP_USER_AGENT 	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) 
Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
HTTP_CONNECTION 	keep-alive
SERVER_NAME 	www.nekophile.com
REMOTE_ADDR 	64.81.73.79
REMOTE_PORT 	47143
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE 	en-us,en;q=0.5
UNIQUE_ID 	9-h09n8AAAEAAGOFDNwAAAAI
SERVER_PORT 	80
GATEWAY_INTERFACE 	CGI/1.1
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING 	gzip,deflate
SERVER_ADDR 	64.81.73.79
DOCUMENT_ROOT 	/var/www/html





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The file perms:

/var/mailman/data
root at twiggy $ ls -la
total 64
drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Nov 29 17:20 .
drwxrwsr-x   19 root     mailman      4096 Nov 20 12:56 ..
-rw-rw----    1 root     mailman      4278 Nov 29 17:20 aliases
-rw-r-----    1 mailman  mailman     12288 Nov 29 17:20 aliases.db


Thank you again!
Phil