Kaiser Ahmed wrote:
I am a new user of mailman. I setup my server and tried to create a mailing list. The following massage occurred. I don't know how to solve it. Please suggest me the steps to be taken to solve this issue.
Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5
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Traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 55, in main process_request(doc, cgidata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 187, in process_request mlist.Create(listname, owner, pw, langs, emailhost) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 457, in Create self.InitVars(name, admin, crypted_password) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 372, in InitVars baseclass.InitVars(self) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 95, in InitVars os.mkdir(self.archive_dir()+'.mbox', 02775) OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/english_news.mbox'
The mailman group is unable to create the /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/english_news.mbox' directory. The most likely cause of this is insufficient permission on the /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/' directory (There is a bug in check_perms so it doesn't catch this).
The minimum permissions on the /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/' directory are 02770 and group mailman, although on most systems, the permissions need to be 02771 for public archives to work.
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