[Mailman-Users] problems with permissions?

[Mark Sapiro]

Eduardo Jaime Quiros Batres wrote:

>I have mailman 2.1.4 on a mandrake 10.0 and have upgraded msec to version =
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>msec-0.44.2-1mdk but I still get a bug error when I try to confirm a =
>
>subscription to a list.
>
>I runned check_permissions -f and it didn't work, I gave a chwon apache.mai=
>l =
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>on all the /var/log/mailman subdirectory and it still didn't work and I als=
>o =
>
>gave a chown 664 on /var/mailman/log and the error is:
>
>
>Jun 23 19:57:00 2005 admin(3952): @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@=
>@@@
>admin(3952): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.4 -----]
>admin(3952): [----- Traceback ------]
>admin(3952): Traceback (most recent call last):
>admin(3952):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 101, in run_main
>admin(3952):     main()
>admin(3952):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/confirm.py", line 110, in =
>
>main
>admin(3952):     subscription_confirm(mlist, doc, cookie, cgidata)
>admin(3952):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/confirm.py", line 333, in =
>
>subscription_confirm
>admin(3952):     op, addr, pw, digest, lang =3D mlist.ProcessConfirmation(
>admin(3952):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1120, in =
>
>ProcessConfirmation
>admin(3952):     self.HoldSubscription(addr, fullname, password, digest, la=
>ng)
>admin(3952):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 391, in =
>
>HoldSubscription
>admin(3952):     assert not self.__db.has_key(id)
>admin(3952): AssertionError

This is not a permissions problem. It is a bug in Mailman 2.1.4 which
was fixed in 2.1.5.

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