I have on my Mailman 2.1.10 production system and my 2.1.11 test system both created from the SourceForge source and installed on Ubuntu dapper via packages I built:
mailman% ls -al /var/lib/mailman total 40 drwxrwsr-x 10 root list 4096 2007-02-28 11:11 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2008-04-04 13:31 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2008-06-30 16:13 bin -> /usr/lib/mailman/bin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2008-06-30 16:13 cron -> /usr/lib/mailman/cron lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2008-06-30 16:13 Mailman -> /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2008-06-30 16:13 scripts -> /usr/lib/mailman/scripts <<Non-relevant lines from the "ls -al" listing have been removed.>> mailman% mailman# ls -al /usr/lib/mailman total 36 drwxr-xr-x 7 root list 4096 2007-02-28 11:11 . drwxr-xr-x 48 root root 12288 2008-06-09 12:24 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root list 4096 2008-07-23 14:55 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root list 4096 2008-07-23 14:55 cron drwxrwsr-x 2 root list 4096 2008-07-23 14:55 mail drwxr-xr-x 11 root list 4096 2008-07-23 14:55 Mailman drwxr-xr-x 2 root list 4096 2008-07-23 14:55 scripts mailman#
When I run check_perms it complains:
mailman# check_perms
directory permissions must be 02775: /var/lib/mailman/Mailman
directory permissions must be 02775: /var/lib/mailman/bin
directory permissions must be 02775: /var/lib/mailman/cron
directory permissions must be 02775: /var/lib/mailman/scripts
Problems found: 4
Re-run as list (or root) with -f flag to fix
mailman# As Mailman is running fine, I do not want to change the permissions on the symbolic links. Is this correct? I have 755 for the permissions on the real files to which the symbolic links point.
Is check_perms reporting on the permissions of the symlinks or the permissions of the real files to which the symbolic links point?
What problems would I see if I do not have group write not "02" on these four files? Thanks.
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