[Mailman-Users] wrapper problems

[Ted Cabeen]

In message <HGEKLLBHDPGHIOLEDMPGGEJBCAAA.webmaster at planetphat.com>, "Jamie Kras
noo" writes:
>Hrmn, I'm at a loss here. Looks like the wrapper had a problem. Check your
>installation.

Try running ~mailman/bin/check_perms -f
It looks like a permission problem.  The above will force the permissions to 
the correct values.

>On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Jamie Krasnoo wrote:
>
>> You need to create a symbolic link to wrapper in /etc/smrsh. Goto
>/etc/smrsh
>> and then ln -s /path/to/mailman/mail/wrapper wrapper. Restart sendmail.
>> without this link in smrsh, sendmail won't run the wrapper since it thinks
>> its not cool to do so.
>>
>> Jamie Krasnoo
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mailman-users-admin at python.org
>> [mailto:mailman-users-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Samir Aggarwal
>> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2000 8:21 PM
>> To: mailman-users at python.org
>> Subject: [Mailman-Users] wrapper problems
>>
>>
>>
>> hello all,
>>
>> i am having some wrapper problems.
>>
>> i was getting the error:
>> sh: wrapper not available for sendmail programs
>> 554 "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner test"... Service unavailable
>>
>> i followed the directions listed in the install, and now i am receiving
>> this error:
>>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
>> "|/etc/smrsh/wrapper mailowner test"
>>     (expanded from: test-admin)
>>
>>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>> Traceback (innermost last):
>>   File "/home/mailman/scripts/mailowner", line 42, in ?
>>     mlist = MailList.MailList(sys.argv[1])
>>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 62, in __init__
>>     self.Load()
>>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 804, in Load
>>     self.Lock()
>>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1373, in Lock
>>     self.__lock.lock()
>>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 186, in lock
>>     os.link(self.__lockfile, self.__tmpfname)
>> OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied
>> 554 "|/etc/smrsh/wrapper mailowner test"... unknown mailer error 1
>>
>> i see that it is a permission error, but where?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Samir

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