[Mailman-Users] Mailman Permissions

[Carlos Williams]

I was looking today at /var/lib/mailman/lists and happened to notice
the owner seems to vary. It appears that some older lists are owner by
mailman:mailman and lists that I have recently created are owner by
root:mailman.

Here is what I see on my server:

drwxrwsr-x  2 root    mailman 4096 Jun 13 13:02 lt2_support_thread
drwxrwsr-x  2 root    mailman 4096 Jun 13 12:00 lvc_i2
drwxrwsr-x  2 mailman mailman 4096 Jun 13 12:00 mailman
drwxrwsr-x  2 mailman mailman 4096 Jun 13 12:00 ngit
drwxrwsr-x  2 root    mailman 4096 Jun 13 12:00 performancewg
drwxrwsr-x  2 mailman mailman 4096 Jun 13 12:00 perf_results
drwxrwsr-x  2 mailman mailman 4096 Jun 13 12:00 ptr_review_board
drwxrwsr-x  2 mailman mailman 4096 Jun 13 12:00 risk_management_wg
drwxrwsr-x  2 root    mailman 4096 Jun 13 12:00 scrum
drwxrwsr-x  2 mailman mailman 4096 Jun 13 12:57 services_ipt
drwxrwsr-x  2 mailman mailman 4096 Jun 13 12:00 stm_ipt
drwxrwsr-x  2 mailman mailman 4096 Jun 13 12:00 syscon_thread
drwxrwsr-x  2 root    mailman 4096 Jun 13 13:11 zoo

Now I know all the lists I create are done in CLI mode using the
"/usr/lib/mailman/bin/.newlist" script which walks me through the
process easily.

My question here is does it matter  that some are owned by mailman and
others by root and if so, how do I generate new lists properly as
mailman:mailman?

Thanks for any support and or info! I am using Linux RHEL 4.6 and
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.