[Mailman-Users] Everything's a bug?

[Paul Tomblin]

Quoting Jeme A Brelin (jeme at brelin.net):
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Dan Mick wrote:
> > >   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 55, in __get_f
> > >     f = self.__fp = open(self.__filename, 'a+')
> > > IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman/logs/error'
> > > 
> > > Can I get a hint (or a clue)?
> > 
> > It seems like this is a HUGE clue: "Permission denied".
> 
> Yes, of course that's a huge clue.  I got a bit hasty in composing my
> original message.
> 
> > So, uh, what are the permissions of the program which is
> > running, and the permissions of the directory and file?
> 
> Lemme show you the two that you kept from the excerpt:
> -rw-r--r--    1 mailman  mailman   2494 Aug 11 18:11 /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py
> drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman  mailman   1024 Aug 11 18:08 /usr/local/mailman/logs/
> 
> /usr/local/mailman/logs/error does not exist.
> 
> I touched the file and changed its perms so now we have this:
> -rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman      0 Aug 11 19:11 /usr/local/mailman/logs/error
> 
> This changed nothing.  The output is exactly the same.

error is written to by the web server.  On my machine, that's
userid "nobody" with group "nobody".  So error should be owned by userid
"nobody" with groupid "mailman".  That way the web server can write to it,
and so can mailman.  Here is an ls -la in my logs directory:

drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      1024 Feb 24 15:23 ./
drwxr-sr-x   16 mailman  mailman      1024 Jul 17 09:56 ../
-rw-rw-r--    1 nobody   mailman     18774 Aug 11 19:27 bounce
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman    105956 Aug 11 19:17 digest
-rw-rw-r--    1 nobody   mailman      9043 Jul 20 13:40 error
-rw-rw-r--    1 nobody   mailman    689551 Aug 11 22:16 post
-rw-rw-r--    1 nobody   mailman     56139 Aug 10 17:56 subscribe
-rw-rw-r--    1 nobody   mailman     26447 Aug 11 14:24 vette

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