[Mailman-Users] Pesky, Persistent error messages

[Adam Roberts]

Greetings all in Mailman-Users world,

I have recently installed and configured (or so it would appear) Mailman
2.1.9 on top of Postfix 2.5 and Ubuntu 8.04.  I am up and running with my
first mailing list but I'm getting an error in my log file that continues to
baffle me.  Granted, it may be something simple, but I'm rather confused and
am turning to the collective wisdom of the Interwebs for answers.

A `tail` from my log file (/var/log/mail.log):

Feb 15 21:18:52 PyHost01 postfix/qmgr[15994]: 7C4586E0B8: from=<
mailman at mydomain.com>, size=628, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Feb 15 21:18:52 PyHost01 postfix/local[27805]: 7EC056DF47: to=<
mailman at mydomain.com>, orig_to=<mailman>, relay=local, delay=1130,
delays=1130/0.01/0/0.04, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure.
Command output: local: fatal: execvp /var/lib/mailman/mail: Permission
denied )
 Feb 15 21:18:52 PyHost01 local[27831]: fatal: execvp /var/lib/mailman/mail:
Permission denied
Feb 15 21:18:52 PyHost01 postfix/qmgr[15994]: 756866E0E2: from=<
mailman at mydomain.com>, size=628, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Feb 15 21:18:52 PyHost01 local[27832]: fatal: execvp /var/lib/mailman/mail:
Permission denied
Feb 15 21:18:52 PyHost01 postfix/local[27812]: 7C4586E0B8: to=<
mailman at mydomain.com>, orig_to=<mailman>, relay=local, delay=10131,
delays=10131/0.02/0/0.04, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred
(temporary failure. Command output: local: fatal: execvp
/var/lib/mailman/mail: Permission denied )
Feb 15 21:20:01 PyHost01 postfix/pickup[24405]: 58EE46E0E9: uid=1002
from=<mailman> Feb 15 21:20:01 PyHost01 postfix/cleanup[27841]: 58EE46E0E9:
message-id=<20090216022001.58EE46E0E9 at mydomain.com>
Feb 15 21:20:01 PyHost01 postfix/qmgr[15994]: 58EE46E0E9: from=<
mailman at mydomain.com>, size=628, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Feb 15 21:20:01 PyHost01 local[27844]: fatal: execvp /var/lib/mailman/mail:
Permission denied


and from my error log (/var/log/mail.err):

Feb 15 21:18:52 PyHost01 local[27831]: fatal: execvp /var/lib/mailman/mail:
Permission denied
Feb 15 21:18:52 PyHost01 local[27832]: fatal: execvp /var/lib/mailman/mail:
Permission denied
Feb 15 21:18:52 PyHost01 local[27833]: fatal: execvp/var/lib/mailman/mail:
Permission denied
Feb 15 21:20:01 PyHost01 local[27844]: fatal: execvp/var/lib/mailman/mail:
Permission denied


The above error messages repeat themselves with great frequency.  They don't
appear to be having an affect on operations as I can send and receive mail
and my mailing lists are working.

Any help or suggestions are welcomed and most appreciated.


Thanks!
Adam Roberts



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