[Mailman-Users] postalias error

[Brian York]

[root at listserv root]# ls -alh /var/mailman/data
total 52K
drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4.0K May 18 11:59 .
drwxrwsr-x   19 root     mailman      4.0K May 17 14:40 ..
-rw-r-----    1 mailman  mailman        41 May 18 12:17 adm.pw
-rw-rw----    1 mailman  mailman      4.0K May 18 12:20 aliases
-rw-r-----    1 mailman  mailman       12K May 18 11:59 aliases.db
-rw-rw----    1 mailman  mailman         5 May 14 11:29 master-qrunner.pid
-rw-r--r--    1 mailman  mailman       14K May  5 21:11 sitelist.cfg


POSTFIX_ALIAS_CMD = '/usr/sbin/postalias'
POSTFIX_MAP_CMD = '/usr/sbin/postmap'

That stuff is right.


On Tuesday 18 May 2004 17:38, Dan Phillips wrote:
> On May 18, 2004, at 3:42 PM, Brian York wrote:
> > RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias
> > /var/mailman/data/aliases
> > (status: 1, Operation not permitted)
>
> Quoting the FAQ:
> http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq06.009.htp
>
> "The problem is most likely that your permissions are wrong on
> data/aliases and/or data/aliases.db. As README.POSTFIX states:
>
>
>      Make sure that the owner of the data/aliases and data/aliases.db
>      file is `mailman' and that the group owner for those files is
>      `mailman'.  E.g.:
>
>      % su
>      % chown mailman:mailman data/aliases*
>
>   You should also ensure that data/aliases and data/aliases.db are group
> writable. E.g.:
>
>
>      % chmod 0664 data/aliases*
>
>   BAW: Note that I think it's also possible to get this error if you
> have Postfix installed in a non-default location, e.g.
> /usr/local/bin/postfix. In that case, be sure the variables
> POSTFIX_ALIAS_CMD and POSTFIX_MAP_CMD point to the right paths for the
> respective executables. If not, make the appropriate changes in your
> mm_cfg.py file."
>
>
> Dan