[ mailman-Bugs-1176138 ] permission denied

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Bugs item #1176138, was opened at 2005-04-04 11:39
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Category: bounce detection
Group: 2.1 (stable)
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: brian (irabufan)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: permission denied

Initial Comment:
mailman was installed from rpm package in redhat 
fedora core 3 cd (system also running redhat fedora 3), 
but it hits the following bug while trying to create a 
mailing list via cgi... any solutions?

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Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in 
run_main
    main()
  File "/usr/src/build/471806-
i386/install/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 
55, in main
  File "/usr/src/build/471806-
i386/install/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 
187, in process_request
  File "/usr/src/build/471806-
i386/install/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 
454, in Create
  File "/usr/src/build/471806-
i386/install/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Site.py", line 65, in 
get_listpath
  File "/usr/src/build/471806-
i386/install/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Site.py", line 40, in 
_makedir
  File "/usr/src/build/475206-
i386/install/usr/lib/python2.3/os.py", line 154, in 
makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission 
denied: '/var/lib/mailman/lists/balist'





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Python information:
Variable Value 
sys.version 2.3.4 (#1, Oct 26 2004, 16:42:40) [GCC 
3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)]  
sys.executable /usr/bin/python  
sys.prefix /usr  
sys.exec_prefix /usr  
sys.path /usr  
sys.platform linux2  




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Environment variables:
Variable Value 
HTTP_COOKIE  
sid=703d3666104d114f75802d8faf257720  
SERVER_SOFTWARE  Apache/2.0.52 (Fedora)  
SCRIPT_NAME  /mailman/create  
SERVER_SIGNATURE  Apache/2.0.52 (Fedora) Server 
at 10.3.1.89 Port 80 
REQUEST_METHOD  POST  
SERVER_PROTOCOL  HTTP/1.1  
QUERY_STRING   
CONTENT_LENGTH  136  
HTTP_USER_AGENT  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 
6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)  
HTTP_CONNECTION  Keep-Alive  
HTTP_REFERER  http://10.3.1.89/mailman/create  
SERVER_NAME  10.3.1.89  
REMOTE_ADDR  10.3.1.55  
SERVER_PORT  80  
SERVER_ADDR  10.3.1.89  
DOCUMENT_ROOT  /var/www/html  
PYTHONPATH  /usr/lib/mailman  
SCRIPT_FILENAME  /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/create  
SERVER_ADMIN  root at localhost  
HTTP_HOST  10.3.1.89  
HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL  no-cache  
REQUEST_URI  /mailman/create  
HTTP_ACCEPT  image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, 
image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, 
application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-
powerpoint, application/msword, application/x-icq, */*  
GATEWAY_INTERFACE  CGI/1.1  
REMOTE_PORT  1443  
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE  en-us  
CONTENT_TYPE  application/x-www-form-urlencoded  
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING  gzip, deflate  



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