[Mailman-Users] Trying again from the start -- Re: Help inunderstandingMailmansetup

[Mark Sapiro]

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>Here is the error_log:
>
>[Mon Dec 06 16:18:32 2010] [error] [client 208.83.67.149] 
>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
>[Mon Dec 06 16:18:32 2010] [error] [client 208.83.67.149] [----- Mailman 
>Version: 2.1.12 -----]
>[Mon Dec 06 16:18:32 2010] [error] [client 208.83.67.149] [----- 
>Traceback ------]
>[Mon Dec 06 16:18:32 2010] [error] [client 208.83.67.149] Traceback 
>(most recent call last):
>[Mon Dec 06 16:18:32 2010] [error] [client 208.83.67.149]   File 
>"/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 85, in run_main
>[Mon Dec 06 16:18:32 2010] [error] [client 208.83.67.149]     immediate=1)
>[Mon Dec 06 16:18:32 2010] [error] [client 208.83.67.149]   File 
>"/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Logging/StampedLogger.py", line 52, in __init__
>[Mon Dec 06 16:18:32 2010] [error] [client 208.83.67.149]     
>Logger.__init__(self, category, nofail, immediate)
>[Mon Dec 06 16:18:32 2010] [error] [client 208.83.67.149]   File 
>"/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 50, in __init__
>[Mon Dec 06 16:18:32 2010] [error] [client 208.83.67.149]     self.__get_f()
>[Mon Dec 06 16:18:32 2010] [error] [client 208.83.67.149]   File 
>"/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 68, in __get_f
>[Mon Dec 06 16:18:32 2010] [error] [client 208.83.67.149]     1)
>[Mon Dec 06 16:18:32 2010] [error] [client 208.83.67.149]   File 
>"/usr/lib/python2.6/codecs.py", line 865, in open
>[Mon Dec 06 16:18:32 2010] [error] [client 208.83.67.149]     file = 
>__builtin__.open(filename, mode, buffering)
>[Mon Dec 06 16:18:32 2010] [error] [client 208.83.67.149] IOError: 
>[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/mailman/error'


The mailman user can't create or write the /var/log/mailman/error log
file. Try running Mailman's bin/checkperms -f as root.

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