[Mailman-Users] Error on attempt to create a List in Mailman 2.1.7-15.12.1 from Mailman Web admin UI

Stephen J. Turnbull turnbull at sk.tsukuba.ac.jp
Mon Jun 25 11:19:40 CEST 2012


Mailman Admin writes:

 > On 2012-06-25 09:37, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
 > > Mailman Admin writes:
 > > 
 > >  > The problem is, that even after bin/fixurl is run, the archive directory
 > >  > /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/ has owner:group = mailman:mailman .
 > >  > You have to set it to wwwrun:mailman, in order for the apache server to
 > >  > have write access to it too.
 > > 
 > > The httpd doesn't need access to the archives; the mailman CGI does.
 > > So the CGI wrapper should be setgid mailman.  Is it?
 > > 
 > 
 > Yes it is.

Is /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/ group-writable?  If not, I'm
stumped; it should be possible for the CGIs to write to it then.



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