[Mailman-Users] Mailman Installation - broken pipe / operatingsystem error

[Mark Sapiro]

I-Ming Chen wrote:
>
>I've been trying to figure out this problem and I've seen some mention of it in 
>past mailing list archives but I still cannot figure it out. I'm getting the 
>following message in my Logwatch file:
>
>System Error Messages:
>   putbody: write error: Broken pipe: 164 Time(s)
>   Cannot exec /usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.9/contrib/mm-handler: Permission 
>denied: 168 Time(s)
>
>
>I think this is related to the "operating system error" that I've seen elsewhere 
>as well but I can't figure it out yet. What's causing these series of errors?
>
>As for mm-handler, it's owned by root.mailman. It used to have permissions 644 
>which I assume made it unable to run so I altered it to 654. However, the same 
>error still appears. Any suggestions?


mm-handler is contributed, unsupported software.

However, your MTA is the process that executes it, so it must be
readable and executable by your MTA which probably doesn't run in the
mailman group.

If you make it's permissions 755, it should work (or at least get to
the next problem).

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