[Mailman-Users] Command output: local: fatal: execvp/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman: Permission denied )

[jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu]

/etc/aliases is the location of my aliases file and that's where postfix
is pointing.  I cannot change the owner to the aliases and aliases.db or
else I can't run newaliases. 

I ran ./configure --with-mail-god=nobody
and I have default_privs = nobody

Any other suggestions? 

Jewel 

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>
Date: Monday, October 27, 2008 5:32 pm
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Command output: local: fatal:
execvp/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman: Permission denied )
To: jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu, mailman-users at python.org

> jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu wrote:
> 
> >When I create a new list and put my email address, I do receive a
> >confirmation.  I can deliver mail as root also from my server.  
> Once I
> >try and post to the list is when nothing happens, just a bounce back
> >saying the "Connection is refused." The only clue I can see if the
> >following in my maillog:
> >
> >Command output: local: fatal: execvp /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman:
> >Permission denied 
> >
> >I read the above error means postfix does not have permissions to 
> access>the mailman wrappers.
> >
> >Before I post this question to a postfix listserv, I wanted to 
> confirm>my permissions were correct.  Here is what I have for
> >/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman:
> >
> >-rwxrwsr-x  1 mailman mailman 16887 Oct 15 09:10 mailman
> >
> >My aliases.db file is owned by root.
> 
> 
> I think this is the problem. If you have Mailman/Postfix integration,
> so that Mailman's aliases are in Mailman's data/aliases and
> data/aliases.db files, aliases.db needs to be owned by mailman, not
> root.
> 
> 
> >I am running...
> >Red Hat 5.1
> >Postfix 2.3.3
> >Mailman 2.1.11
> >
> >Also, when I run check_perms - f as root it says "no problems found"
> 
> 
> That's a flaw in check_perms. It only checks group on files and
> directories, not owner, because owner doesn't matter except for this
> one file.
> 
> Also, see the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/tYA9> in case you run 
> intoa group mismatch after fixing the owner.
> 
> -- 
> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
> 
>