[Mailman-Users] aliases assistant

[Mark Sapiro]

John Dennis wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 15:06 +1000, Diana Huang wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>> 
>> Thx for your email. Actually I tried that method, but I got some errors
>> 
>> 
>> /usr/bin/sudo: /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases: command not found
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/genaliases", line 116, in ?
>>     main()
>>   File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/genaliases", line 106, in main
>>     MTA.create(mlist, nolock=True, quiet=quiet)
>>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 232, in create
>>     _update_maps()
>>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 53, in _update_maps
>>     raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr)
>> RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/bin/sudo /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases 
>> /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted)
>> 
>> Any comments?
>
>I suspect /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases is either not executable or
>not executable by the user/group the command is running under (what
>user/group that is depends on how you did your installation)


This is somewhat puzzling.

>> /usr/bin/sudo: /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases: command not found

seems to indicate that there is a problem with
/usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases as John suggests, but

>> RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/bin/sudo /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases 
>> /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted)

seems to say that the commands in /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases, the
first of which is presumably

/bin/cp /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases /etc/mailman.aliases

are being executed and it is this first command which fails, but since
this is executed via sudo as root, why would it be 'not permitted'?

I don't know the answer.

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