[Mailman-Users] nightly_htdig errors after upgrade

[Mark Sapiro]

Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>
>I am _almost_ at my wits end on this. I just cannot figure out why the
>permissions are denied.
>
>This is what comes up every night after the upgrade, even though my
>mailman setup seems to be working okay.
>
>From: Cron Daemon <mailman at DOMAIN>
>To: mailman at DOMAIN
>Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 02:19:13 +0300
>Subject: Cron <mailman at ns2> /usr/local/bin/python -S
>	/usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_htdig
>
>/usr/bin/sort: mkstemp error: Permission denied
>htmerge: Word sort failed
>
>/usr/bin/sort: mkstemp error: Permission denied
>htmerge: Word sort failed
>
>/usr/bin/sort: mkstemp error: Permission denied
>htmerge: Word sort failed
>
>/usr/bin/sort: mkstemp error: Permission denied
>htmerge: Word sort failed

This problem is with htdig, not Mailman. The
/usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_htdig script calls the command in
HTDIG_RUNDIG_PATH (rundig) and that in turn apparently calls htmerge
which calls sort which attempts to create a unique temporary file
using mkstemp and that fails for lack of permission.

What happens if you try to run sort stand alone as the mailman user?
What happens if you try to run rundig (rundig -c <some .conf file>) as
the mailman user?

If you've done all the things in the Permissions Considerations/htdig
section of the INSTALL.htdig-mm document, and you still have this
problem, all I can suggest is that you try running things stand-alone
as the mailman user to try to narrow down the problem.

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