[Mailman-Users] Bug in Mailman version 2.1.15

[Mark Sapiro]

On 08/16/2014 04:18 AM, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
>
> I'm not sure what I've missed.  /var/log/mailman/error shows...
>
>
> Aug 16 07:12:25 2014 admin(17943):
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> admin(17943): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.15 -----]
> admin(17943): [----- Traceback ------]
> admin(17943): Traceback (most recent call last):
...
> admin(17943):     fp = open(filename)
> admin(17943): IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/etc/mailman/adm.pw'


/etc/mailman/adm.pw must be readable by Mailman's group (I think 
'mailman' in the CentOS package.

This may be a file or a symlink to something like 
/var/lib/mailman/data/adm.pw. In any case, the target needs to be group 
mailman and mode 0640.

Running

sudo bin/check_perms -f

should fix this.

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