[Mailman-Users] moving mailman to another server

[myron]

I'm moving mailman from Solaris to Ubuntu 10.04.

The latest it installed on Ubuntu was
ii  mailman                         1:2.1.13-1ubuntu0.2

Everything seems to work fine on a test list (xxx) except that it  
won't build any archives.

This is from the log/mailman/error

Jul 26 11:21:57 2011 (1132) Archive file access failure:
         /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/xxx.mbox/xxx.mbox [Errno  
13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/xxx.mbox/ 
xxx.mbox'
Jul 26 11:21:57 2011 (1132) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 13]  
Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/xxx.mbox/xxx.mbox'
Jul 26 11:21:57 2011 (1132) Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 120, in  
_oneloop
     self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 191, in  
_onefile
     keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/ArchRunner.py", line 73, in  
_dispose
     mlist.ArchiveMail(msg)
   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 198, in  
ArchiveMail
     self.__archive_to_mbox(msg)
   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 167, in  
__archive_to_mbox
     mbox = self.__archive_file(afn)
   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 155, in  
__archive_file
     return Mailbox.Mailbox(open(afn, 'a+'))
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/archives/ 
private/xxx.mbox/xxx.mbox'

These are the permissions setup by mailman on the archive directories.

/var/lib/mailman/archives# ll
total 16
drwxrwsr-x 4 root list     4096 2011-07-20 10:38 ./
drwxrwsr-x 9 root list     4096 2011-07-25 13:49 ../
drwxrws--- 8 root www-data 4096 2011-07-25 14:56 private/
drwxrwsr-x 2 root list     4096 2011-07-25 14:56 public/

It doesn't seem to like the root:www-data permission setup.

--myron
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Myron Kowalski
MoCoSIN Network/Systems Administrator
Moravian College
myron at cs.moravian.edu