Screwed up privs seems to happen a lot. Sure, maybe the person installed improperly. But if it is simply permissions, then it should be easily rectifiable.

Wasn't there a script or something to check the permissions? I couldn't find it. Would be nice to have one.

Regardless, I might recommend a web page or other document that has a detailed listing of owner/group/privs for the relevant directories and files.

thx -g

Wes Morriston wrote:

I did as you suggested. All the directories in /home/mailman are now owned by mailman and all have the g+s setting. I took the +s off of /usr/bin/python. The result? Messages silently disappear as before. Put the +s back on python, and they don't disappear.

Something clearly has the wrong ownership and/or permissions, but I just don't know what!

Frustrated,

Wes

Christopher Lindsey wrote:

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drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Feb 9 17:37 data

That is exactly how mailman installed itself. (I was root when I did the install.)

Yes, I had the same problem.

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I then did a

chown -R mailman .

in /home/mailman.

This will probably unset the g+s setting on all directories. You need to set it back:

cd ~mailman chown -R mailman.mailman . find . -type d -exec chmod g+s {} \;

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The following, I discovered, does cause the messages to be delivered.

chmod +s /usr/bin/python

I hope it is not too dangerous to run python as root.

Ummm, I would undo that.

Chris

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