[Mailman-Users] check_perms -f not working

[Noah]

hi there,

I run check_perms with the -f switch and the program runs the program 
claims it found 100 problems and asks to run the program again.  Next 
time I run it 100 problems are still found.  So I did some research to 
figure out what the problems are.

$ sudo ./check_perms -f
/var/lib/mailman/cron bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing)
/var/lib/mailman/Mailman bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing)
/var/lib/mailman/mail bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing)
/var/lib/mailman/icons bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing)
/var/lib/mailman/bin bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing)
/var/lib/mailman/templates bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing)
/var/lib/mailman/cgi-bin bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing)
/var/lib/mailman/scripts bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing)
/var/lib/mailman/logs bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing)
/var/lib/mailman/pythonlib bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing)

in some cases there are links to another directory.  Does this seem normal?

$ ls -l /var/lib/mailman/cron
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Mar  8 02:20 /var/lib/mailman/cron -> 
/usr/lib/mailman/cron

/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/<list-name>/2004-April/index.html bad 
group (has: mailman, expected list) (fixing)

in some cases there are links to another file.  Does this seem normal?

# ls -l /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/<list-name>/2004-April/index.html
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mailman mailman 11 Jul 30  2010 
/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/<list-name>/2004-April/index.html -> 
thread.html


also I am getting the following error when visiting the archives page 
for certain lists.  What is a good way to fix this issue?

--- snip ---

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /pipermail/<list-name>/ on this server.

--- snip ---

# ls -ld *
drwxrws--- 109 www-data list 4096 Jan 27  2011 private
drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman  list 4096 Jan 27  2011 public
# ls -ld <mail-list>.mbox/
drwxrwsr-x 2 80 list 4096 Oct  6  2008 <mail-list>.mbox/

Cheers