[Mailman-Users] User errors

[Brad Knowles]

At 7:15 PM -0600 2005-08-03, Tim DeBoer wrote:

>    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/codecs.py", line 566, in open
>      file = __builtin__.open(filename, mode, buffering)
>  IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman/logs/error'

	This is a permissions problem.  Check the ownership and 
permissions of the directory structure.  The ~mailman/bin/check_perms 
script may be of use to you.

>  Group mismatch error.  Mailman expected the CGI
>  wrapper script to be executed as group "www", but
>  the system's web server executed the CGI script as
>  group "wheel".  Try tweaking the web server to run the
>  script as group "www", or re-run configure,
>  providing the command line option `--with-cgi-gid=wheel'.</pre>

	See <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq06.016.htp>.

>  I did install mailman from the ports, rather than source so that may
>  have something to do with it, I don't know.
>  Also, I'm using suexec on apache, I'm not sure this is related to 
>that though.

	I believe that suexec can cause problems.  See above.

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