[Mailman-Users] Overwhelming Error notifications to the List Owner
OpenSoftware Crew
opensoft at est.it
Mon Oct 11 18:33:16 CEST 1999
I started my first mailing list a few days ago, as i told you before.
First problem i noticed is that the list owner receives a lot of mail with
the same two kinds of error notifications:
1)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 14:50:03 +0200
From: root (Cron Daemon)
To: mailman
Subject: Cron <mailman at wigner> /usr/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news
Traceback (innermost last):
File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 119, in ?
main()
File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 58, in main
mlist = MailList.MailList(name, lock=0)
File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 61, in __init__
self.Load()
File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 802, in Load
raise Errors.MMBadListError, 'Failed to access config info'
MMBadListError: Failed to access config info
Inspecting the /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py file it appears
that mailman is looking for a 'config.db' file ta cannot be found
(i don't know python though, so i am not sure about that conclusion):
% vi +800 /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py
795
796 def Load(self, check_version = 1):
797 if self._tmp_lock:
798 self.Lock()
799 try:
800 file = open(os.path.join(self._full_path, 'config.db'), 'r')
801 except IOError:
802 raise Errors.MMBadListError, 'Failed to access config info'
2)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 15:12:01 +0200
From: root (Cron Daemon)
To: mailman
Subject: Cron <mailman at wigner> /usr/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/cron/run_queue
Traceback (innermost last):
File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/run_queue", line 46, in ?
main()
File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/run_queue", line 39, in main
lockfile.lock()
File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/flock.py", line 119, in lock
os.link(self.lockfile, self.tmpfname)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied
Inspecting the /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/flock.py file gives no clue.
All that i can see is that Mailman cannot perform a link between a lock
and a tmp file:
118 # create the hard link and test for exactly 2 links to the file
119 os.link(self.lockfile, self.tmpfname)
It is possible that something is wrong with my installation.
Currently Mailman owner is root, since that is the debian pre-packaged
setup. I changed group to 'list' to the $prefix tree, that is to
/usr/lib/mailman according to the debian pre-packaged setup.
Then i changed file privileges to g+rw through $prefix downward and
added to the group 'list' the owner of the mailing list.
what else is to be fixed?
thank you for your help
Pol
email: pumilia at est.it
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