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

[jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu]

Here is what main.cf has as far as alias settings:
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases

When I run a locate aliases here are all the places it exists and am not
sure what to put:
/etc/aliases
/etc/aliases.db
/etc/alsa/cards/aliases.alisp
/etc/alsa/cards/aliases.conf
/etc/alternatives/mta-aliasesman
/etc/alternatives/mta-newaliases
/etc/alternatives/mta-newaliasesman
/etc/fonts/conf.avail/30-amt-aliases.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.avail/30-urw-aliases.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-aliases-fedora.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-amt-aliases.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-urw-aliases.conf
/etc/pango/pangox.aliases
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases
/home/mailman/mailman-2.1.11/bin/genaliases
/home/mailman/mailman-2.1.11/build/bin/genaliases
/home/mailman/mailman-2.1.11/misc/JapaneseCodecs-1.4.11/build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/japanese/aliases
/home/mailman/mailman-2.1.11/misc/JapaneseCodecs-1.4.11/build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/japanese/aliases/__init__.py
/home/mailman/mailman-2.1.11/misc/JapaneseCodecs-1.4.11/japanese/aliases
/home/mailman/mailman-2.1.11/misc/JapaneseCodecs-1.4.11/japanese/aliases/__init__.py
/home/mailman/mailman-2.1.11/misc/KoreanCodecs-2.0.5/build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/korean/aliases.py
/home/mailman/mailman-2.1.11/misc/KoreanCodecs-2.0.5/korean/aliases.py
/usr/bin/newaliases
/usr/bin/newaliases.postfix
/usr/bin/newaliases.sendmail
/usr/include/aliases.h
/usr/lib/python2.4/encodings/aliases.py
/usr/lib/python2.4/encodings/aliases.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.4/encodings/aliases.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/japanese/aliases
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/japanese/aliases/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/japanese/aliases/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/japanese/aliases/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.4/test/doctest_aliases.py
/usr/lib/python2.4/test/doctest_aliases.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.4/test/doctest_aliases.pyo
/usr/local/mailman/bin/genaliases
/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/japanese/aliases
/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/japanese/aliases/__init__.py
/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/japanese/aliases/__init__.pyc
/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/korean/aliases.py
/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/korean/aliases.pyc
/usr/sbin/praliases
/usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes/aliases
/usr/share/doc/Deployment_Guide-en-US-5.2/images/neat-aliases.png
/usr/share/doc/bash-3.2/startup-files/Bash_aliases
/usr/share/doc/bash-3.2/startup-files/apple/aliases
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/apm.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/ark.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/ast.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/ati.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/chips.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/cirrus.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/cyrix.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/glint.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/i128.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/i740.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/i810.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/mga.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/neomagic.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/nsc.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/nv.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/r128.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/radeon.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/radeon_tp.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/s3.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/s3virge.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/savage.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/siliconmotion.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/sis.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/tdfx.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/trident.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/tseng.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/vga.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/via.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/vmware.xinf
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/voodoo.xinf
/usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.postfix.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.sendmail.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/aliases.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/aliases.postfix.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/aliases.sendmail.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/praliases.8.gz
/usr/share/mime/aliases
/usr/share/system-config-network/help/network-aliases.html
/usr/share/system-config-network/help/figs/neat-aliases.png
/usr/share/vim/vim70/ftplugin/mailaliases.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim70/syntax/mailaliases.vim



Jewel
----- Original Message -----
From: b19141 at anl.gov (Barry Finkel)
Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 2:43 pm
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Command output: local: fatal:
execvp/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman: Permission denied )
To: Mailman-Users at python.org

> jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu wrote, in reply:
> 
> >/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? 
> 
> There should be two aliases files - one supplied by the OS (and/or
> Postfix), and one created by Mailman.  You need to define both to
> Postfix in main.cf in the
> 
>     alias_maps = hash:aliasfile1 hash:aliasfile2
> 
> line.  Keep the permissions on the system file as they are, so that
> the "newaliases" command will work.  The permissions on the
> Mailman-generated aliases file need to match the 
> 
>     --with-mail-gid=
> 
> parameter on the ./configure statement.
> 
> I just noticed that on my Ubuntu system there is no system aliases 
> file,so I do not have a definition for postmaster, MAILER-DAEMON, 
> and the
> other common userids.  And I do not want to include those definitions
> in the Mailman-generated aliases file, as a re-generation of that file
> would proably omit my manual additions.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
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