On 20 Apr, Christopher Lindsey wrote:

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found" so I figured I was on the right track. It was created with ownership of root. Thinking this should, perhaps be mailman, I changed it, but "permission denied" persists. It's permissions are -rw-rw-r--. The lock directory is permission drwxrwxr-x also owned by mailman.

What happens if you change the lock directory to be sgid mailman? That's the way that most of the mailman directories are:

[root@lorien]# /bin/ls -lgd ~mailman/locks/ drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 1024 Apr 20 02:12 /home/staff/mailman/locks/

Chris

Oops. I mistyped. It already is set just that way.