Just to let everyone know how this one turned out:
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 07:44:11PM -0400, Corbett Klempay wrote:
Cron is giving me this every 5 minutes:
[...]
Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 41, in ? file = open(os.path.join(mm_cfg.DATA_DIR, "gate_watermarks.last"), "w") IOError: (13, 'Permission denied')
Mailman was installed w/ group user instead of group mailman.
And I'm getting a 403 Forbidden on the test list...I'm thinking this might be related to the other admin installing cgi-wrap...I'm not too keen on how it works.
The problem here was that /home/mailman needed to be "chmod a+rx"'d. That one should be mentioned in the install document!
John
"JV" == John Viega viega@list.org writes:
JV> Mailman was installed w/ group user instead of group mailman.
Do you mean that $prefix wasn't chgrp'd mailman and chmod'd g+s?
I'd really like to know if those instructions in the INSTALL are incorrect or not. If they just overlooked, then I can write a test to guarantee that's set up correctly.
JV> The problem here was that /home/mailman needed to be "chmod
JV> a+rx"'d. That one should be mentioned in the install
JV> document!
Okay, here's what the INSTALL doc will say about setting up $prefix:
Make sure this directory is set to group `mailman' and has the
group sticky bit set. You probably also want to guarantee that
this directory is read and executeable by everyone. For example,
these shell commands will accomplish this:
% cd $prefix
% chgrp mailman .
% chmod a+rx,g+s .
-Barry
On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 11:12:34AM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
"JV" == John Viega viega@list.org writes:
JV> Mailman was installed w/ group user instead of group mailman.Do you mean that $prefix wasn't chgrp'd mailman and chmod'd g+s?
Yeah, I think that it may have been a case of skimming through the install docs, which I'm sure we've all done before!
John
"JV" == John Viega viega@list.org writes:
JV> Yeah, I think that it may have been a case of skimming through
JV> the install docs, which I'm sure we've all done before!
Yeah, I've been guilty too! Well, I'll add an explicit check (someplace). Much better for configure or make install to barf and point you at the documentation, then to just let people screw themselves. ;-)
-Barry
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