[Mailman-Users] Re: Not to bug everyone, but... (A pair of tricks)

[Omar Walid Llorente]

freya at rfa.org wrote:
>I tried posting last week, but never got a reply. Can someone point out
>to me why i'm getting these errors on a RedHat linux box (v5.1)?
>
>I'm getting these errors in /var/log/cron from mailman. Can anyone tell
>me what this is all about, and how to fix it? I know that the cron
>daemon is being asked to run this via mailman, but is this just a
>permissions issue, or possibly a bad install? I'll also attach an
>emailed error that I used to get, but no longer get anymore for some
>reason...
>
>
>mailman (04/15-11:12:00-5473) CMD (/usr/bin/python
>/home/mailman/cron/run_queue)
>mailman (04/15-11:42:00-5481) CMD (/usr/bin/python
>/home/mailman/cron/run_queue)

[...]

	Hello Adam, i have a trick for solving this. It's a permission problem 
in some mailman's subdirectories. These are the steps:

	(as root)
	1- cd ~mailman
	2- chown -R mailman.root lists locks logs
	3- chmod g+s lists locks logs

	This must solve your problem (i think :-)

NOTE: For "untruster" admins: mailman needs you to enable the cookies to 
	change the configuration of any list.

	Thanks to all for such a good pieze of software.

	Omar.

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