[Mailman-Users] Permissions problems

[Mark Sapiro]

Melinda Gilmore wrote:

>I continue to get these messages when some cron jobs are running.  I can see
>that it is a permissions problems.  But I have tried everything by changing
>permissions and it still is having problems.  This particular file that is
>mentioned is not there.


So the user who's crontab ran this does not have permission to create
the file.

Try doing

su - user

where user is the user who's crontab this is, followed by

touch /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/mailman/2007-October.txt.gz


>Someone please help me figure this out.  There has
>to be some little thing I am missing.  I have compared files with others
>that are not getting the message and the permissions are the same.  
>
>Your "cron" job on lists
>/usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip
>
>produced the following output:
>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip", line 154, in ?
>    main()
>  File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip", line 140, in main
>    compress(f)
>  File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip", line 81, in compress
>    outfp = gzip.open(txtfile+'.gz', 'wb', 6)
>  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/gzip.py", line 49, in open
>    return GzipFile(filename, mode, compresslevel)
>  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/gzip.py", line 94, in __init__
>    fileobj = self.myfileobj = __builtin__.open(filename, mode or 'rb')
>IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
>'/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/mailman/2007-October.txt.gz'

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