Hi,

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.

Thanking you,

Kaiser Ahmed System Engineer BSS, Dhaka.

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'

Python information: Variable Value sys.version 2.3.4 (#1, Nov 4 2004, 14:06:56) [GCC 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)]
sys.executable /usr/bin/python
sys.prefix /usr
sys.exec_prefix /usr
sys.path /usr
sys.platform linux2

Environment variables: Variable Value HTTP_REFERER http://mail.bssnews.org/mailman/create
SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat)
SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/create
SERVER_SIGNATURE Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat) Server at mail.bssnews.org Port 80 REQUEST_METHOD POST
SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.0
QUERY_STRING
CONTENT_LENGTH 146
HTTP_CONNECTION keep-alive
SERVER_NAME mail.bssnews.org
REMOTE_ADDR 202.84.38.126
HTTP_VIA 1.1 gateway.bss-bd.com:8080 (squid/2.5.STABLE6)
SERVER_PORT 80
SERVER_ADDR 202.84.38.126
DOCUMENT_ROOT /var/www/html
PYTHONPATH /usr/lib/mailman
SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/create
SERVER_ADMIN root@localhost
HTTP_HOST mail.bssnews.org
HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL no-cache, max-age=259200
REQUEST_URI /mailman/create
HTTP_ACCEPT image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, */*
GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR 192.168.0.31
REMOTE_PORT 51774
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en-us
CONTENT_TYPE application/x-www-form-urlencoded
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate