This one time, at band camp, Stephen Gran said: > Hello all, > > I just installed mailman and started playing around with it. I have > added a list, doctored up it's configuration (dump with -o, edit, update > with -i), and added a user. I have 2 problems: > > The user (me) gets the welcome mail, but nothing I have sent after that. > It's been about 45 minutes, and I would have though that that was long > enough. I see no errors in exim's logs - it pipes off to mailman just > fine. > > The second problem is that I can't get the web administration interface > to work. Whenever I attempt it, I get the "We're sorry, we hit a bug!" > page, and the logs show: > > Which seems to be the problem with delivery. Anyone have any > suggestions here? I can see that it's a permissions problem, and: > > mail:/home/steve# ls -l /var/lib/mailman/ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root list 18 Oct 14 13:48 locks -> ../../lock/mailman > > mail:/home/steve# ls -l /var/lock/ =20 > total 4 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 14 14:28 mailman > > Hmmm . . . root ownership with no write access for anyone else? Should > qrunner and mailman be running SUID root, or do I need to adjust the > permissions on this directory? If so, to what - list? OK - answering my own problems, changing the ownership to: mail:/home/steve# ls -l /var/lock/ total 4 drwxrwxr-x 2 root list 4096 Oct 14 16:25 mailman fixed it, although I think there is probably a better solution. Steve -- If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell. -- Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)
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