[Mailman-Users] Wrong perms?(fwd) Cron <mailman at patronus> /usr/lib/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip

[Mark Sapiro]

On 07/09/2015 06:48 AM, Steve Matzura wrote:
> After solving my cron confusions, I get these messages daily:
> 
> Subject: Cron <mailman@{mynode}> /usr/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs
> 
> ...
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/var/lock/mailman/mailman.lock.{mynode}.{mydomain.com}.7552.0'
> 
> Subject: Cron <mailman@{mynode}> /usr/lib/mailman/cron/disabled
> 
> ...
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/var/lock/mailman/mailman.lock.{mynode}.{mydomain.com}.7837.0'
> 
> When I looked for this file, it wasn't even there.
> 
> Subject: Cron <mailman@{mynode}> /usr/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests
> 
> ...
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/var/lib/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck'
> 
> This file is owned by root and is in the mailman group. 
> 
> check_perms reports no problems found.


In that case, these are almost certainly SELinux issues. Google things like

selinux logging
redhat disable selinux
redhat disable selinux without reboot

for information.

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