[Mailman-Users] Need help very badly

[Kaiser Ahmed]

Thanks a lot. I have done successfully by changing the permission of
/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/ directory .

Best regards,

Kaiser

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Sapiro" <msapiro at value.net>
To: "Kaiser Ahmed" <kaiser at bssnews.net>; <Mailman-Users at python.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Need help very badly


> Kaiser Ahmed wrote:
> >
> >I am a new user of mailman. I setup my server and tried to create a
mailing list. The following massage occurred. I don't know how to solve it.
Please suggest me the steps to be taken to solve this issue.
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5
> >
> >We're sorry, we hit a bug!
> >If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of
this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what
happened. Thanks!
> >
> >Traceback:
> >
> >Traceback (most recent call last):
> >  File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main
> >    main()
> >  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 55, in main
> >    process_request(doc, cgidata)
> >  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 187, in
process_request
> >    mlist.Create(listname, owner, pw, langs, emailhost)
> >  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 457, in Create
> >    self.InitVars(name, admin, crypted_password)
> >  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 372, in InitVars
> >    baseclass.InitVars(self)
> >  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 95, in
InitVars
> >    os.mkdir(self.archive_dir()+'.mbox', 02775)
> >OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/english_news.mbox'
>
>
> The mailman group is unable to create the
> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/english_news.mbox' directory. The
> most likely cause of this is insufficient permission on the
> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/' directory (There is a bug in
> check_perms so it doesn't catch this).
>
> The minimum permissions on the /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/'
> directory are 02770 and group mailman, although on most systems, the
> permissions need to be 02771 for public archives to work.
>
> -- 
> Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
>
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