Peter Matulis wrote:

I have mail for the mailman user redirected to my account. Today I got this in my inbox. What should I do to correct my setup? Thanks for any help.

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip", line 154, in ? main() File "/usr/local/lib/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip", line 140, in main compress(f) File "/usr/local/lib/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip", line 81, in compress outfp = gzip.open(txtfile+'.gz', 'wb', 6) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/gzip.py", line 49, in open return GzipFile(filename, mode, compresslevel) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/gzip.py", line 95, in __init__ fileobj = self.myfileobj = __builtin__.open(filename, mode or 'rb') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/spool/mailman/archives/private/somelist/2006-April.txt.gz'

Make sure that the mailman user:group has at least search ('x') permission on every directory in the path to /var/spool/mailman/archives/private/somelist and at least 'rwx' on the somelist directory itself and at least 'rw' on the file if it exists.

Those would be the minimum necessary permissions, but bin/check_perms will check your installation and will want more than that, namely 'rws' for the mailman group on the mailman, archives, private and somelist directories.

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