support <Support@computerbroadcastnetwork.com> wrote:

What does this all mean?

Re-run as list (or root) with -f flag to fix root@computerbroadcastnetwork:/etc# check_perms -f /var/lib/mailman/templates bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/logs bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/cgi-bin bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/Mailman bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/locks bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/cron bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/pythonlib bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/scripts bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/mail bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/bin bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/icons bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) Problems found: 11 Re-run as list (or root) with -f flag to fix

If it happens once, it means check_perms has done it's job.

If you run check_perms -f several times with the same result every time, it means all those names are symlinks to the real directories, and check_perms sees the group of the symlink as 'root' and attempts to change it, but this sets the group of the target which is the only thing that matters anyway.

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