[Mailman-Users] Help with Mailman 1.1

[Dan Mick]

This certainly seems relevant, from README.LINUX:

If you are running secure_linux, you probably have restricted
hardlinks turned on.  Gergely Madarasz says that this not only
restricts hardlinks in /tmp, but also in any non +t directory.  This
can cause "Operation not permitted" errors in MailList.Save() -- you
will see a traceback.  You must turn restricted hardlinks off.


Jeffrey Kain wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been using Mailman for awhile, and it was working well on our Redhat
> Linux box. This week I upgraded the hardware, and put a fresh copy of
> Mandrake 7.1 on the new machine, and I'm having trouble getting Mailman to
> work.
> 
> The administrative web pages come up OK, check_perms reports everything is
> OK, and check_db reports that all my list databases are OK. When I send a
> message to a Mailman address, I get the errors shown at the end of this
> message returned back to me from the mailer. In /var/messages, I get this
> error:
> 
> Aug 18 14:29:03 mail kernel: Security: denied hard link to 516.503 for UID
> 8, EUID 8, process python:9059
> 
> I'm running Mandrake Linux 7.1, Kernel 2.215-4mdk. Other versions:
> 
> sendmail-8.9.3-Melissa-safe-2
> apache-1.3.12-12mdk
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help!
> 
> Jeff
> 
> (Here's the error text:)
> 
>     ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> "| /home/mailman/mail/wrapper post orchard-dev"
>      (expanded from: <orchard-dev at orchardsoft.com>)
> 
>     ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> Traceback (innermost last):
>    File "/home/mailman/scripts/post", line 45, in ?
>      mlist = MailList.MailList(sys.argv[1])
>    File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 62, in __init__
>      self.Load()
>    File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 804, in Load
>      self.Lock()
>    File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1373, in Lock
>      self.__lock.lock()
>    File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 186, in lock
>      os.link(self.__lockfile, self.__tmpfname)
> OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted
> 554 "| /home/mailman/mail/wrapper post orchard-dev" ... unknown mailer error 1
> 
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