[Mailman-Developers] >Hmm, I see none of these on mail.python.org which gates

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "P" == Patriot  <room_maildev@bbs.pixel.citadel.org> writes:
   
    P>  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 389120 Feb 27 18:01 filezSQFHI
   
    P>  But your question is valid, and I hadn't thoughtof it.  The
    P> gatewaying stuff I have left in the mailman crontab and there's
    P> not anyway it should be able to create those files as 'root',
    P> unless the wrapper's doing it.
   
It shouldn't unless Mailman's been misconfigured.

Are these files that your gating from mail to news, from news to mail,
or both?  Because if it's in only one direction, that might help
narrow the problem down.

Gating from news to mail happens by cron/gate_news.  Gating from mail
to news happens by the ToUsenet.py handler run by the qrunner.
Neither should be able to create root owned files (if they were owned
by user or group `mailman', then I'd be more suspecting of a Mailman
problem).
   
    P>  In any event, I have no idea what's causing this.  As for
    P> 'usenet software' I'm not using anything but the gatewaying
    P> software.  The usenet server's not on the same machine, it's at
    P> a different ISP...and again, like I said, each of those files
    P> is specifically a file full of each usenet posting that I have
    P> gatewayed.
   
    P>  I'm stumped.

Me too!
-Barry