Hi All,

I'm having trouble with the web create interface, in that unless I set the data/aliases and data/aliases.db to be owned by apache:mailman, I'll get an error after I use the web interface to create a list. The list is still created, and the aliases added to the data/aliases file, but the list created email does not send and I get the following returned in my web browser:

Bug in Mailman version 2.1.2

We're sorry, we hit a bug!

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Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 55, in main process_request(doc, cgidata) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 217, in process_request sys.modules[modname].create(mlist, cgi=1) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 232, in create _update_maps() File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 53, in _update_maps raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr) RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias /var/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted)

Everything that I've read, including the archives of this list, says that the owner on this file should be mailman:mailman. Everything seems to work with the creation if I set it to apache:mailman, so I'm wondering if there's anything wrong with doing this. And anyone have an explanation why it doesn't work correctly?

I'm using Mailman version 2.1.2, python version 2.2.2, on a system running Red Hat Linux 9.

Thanks in advance, -Lori -----~-----~-----~-----~-----~-----~-----~-----~----- Loriann Higashi Coordinator of Student Computing loriann.higashi@yale.edu (203) 432.9549