[Mailman-Developers] 2.1.2 permissions error

[Ned Holbrook]

Hello all,

I'm installing Mailman 2.1.2 from the RedHat 9 source RPM and can't seem to
access any of the web scripts. I've included various results below; does
anyone have any suggestions as to how I might resolve this issue? Thanks,

Ned

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[ned at sven bin]$ ls -l /var/log/mailman
total 15
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman       322 Apr 22 18:43 error
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman      1260 Apr 21 13:29 post
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman      7065 Apr 22 18:55 qrunner
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman      2063 Apr 22 18:55 smtp
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman       728 Apr 21 13:29 smtp-failure
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     mailman       193 Apr 21 11:42 subscribe
[ned at sven bin]$ pwd
/var/mailman/bin
[ned at sven bin]$ sudo ./check_perms
No problems found
[ned at sven bin]$ 

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Bug in Mailman version 2.1.2
We're sorry, we hit a bug!
If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of
this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what
happened.  Thanks! 
Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/mailman/scripts/driver", line 68, in run_main
    immediate=1)
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Logging/StampedLogger.py", line 52, in __init__
    Logger.__init__(self, category, nofail, immediate)
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 49, in __init__
    self.__get_f()
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 67, in __get_f
    1)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/codecs.py", line 496, in open
    file = __builtin__.open(filename, mode, buffering)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/mailman/error'



Python information:
VariableValue
sys.version 2.2.3 (#1, Aug  8 2003, 08:44:02) [GCC 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat
Linux 3.2.3-13)] 
sys.executable /usr/bin/python
sys.prefix /usr 
sys.exec_prefix /usr
sys.path /usr 
sys.platform linux2


Environment variables:
VariableValue
 HTTP_COOKIE  PHPSESSID=3466d0405189bbc9ac394ef34b4bea73
 SCRIPT_FILENAME  /var/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo
 PYTHONPATH  /var/mailman
 SERVER_SOFTWARE  Apache/2
 SERVER_ADMIN  webmaster at spflrc.org
 SCRIPT_NAME  /mailman/listinfo
 SERVER_SIGNATURE  
 REQUEST_METHOD  GET
 HTTP_HOST  www.spflrc.org
 SERVER_PROTOCOL  HTTP/1.1
 QUERY_STRING   
 REQUEST_URI  /mailman/listinfo
 HTTP_ACCEPT  */* 
 HTTP_USER_AGENT  Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en)
AppleWebKit/137 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/137
 HTTP_CONNECTION  keep-alive
 SERVER_NAME  www.spflrc.org
 REMOTE_ADDR  17.213.14.246
 REMOTE_PORT  54326
 HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE  en, ja;q=0.92, ja-jp;q=0.96, fr;q=0.88, de-de;q=0.85,
de;q=0.81, es;q=0.77, it-it;q=0.73, it;q=0.69, nl-nl;q=0.65, nl;q=0.62,
sv-se;q=0.58, sv;q=0.54, no-no;q=0.50, no;q=0.46, da-dk;q=0.42, da;q=0.38,
fi-fi;q=0.35, fi;q=0.31
 SERVER_PORT  80 
 GATEWAY_INTERFACE  CGI/1.1
 HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING  gzip, deflate;q=1.0, identity;q=0.5, *;q=0
 SERVER_ADDR  66.220.29.254
 DOCUMENT_ROOT  /var/www/html