[Mailman-Users] IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/hom e/mailman/lists/test/config.db'

[James Sintz]

Thanks!!

I did a 'make clean' and then put the correct settings in for --with-cgi-gid
and --with-mail-gid and everything works great now (thought I did that the
first time).

My exact problem was not listed on any of the FAQs and searching the list
(at python.org) is like pulling teeth. So thanks for the answer to a
seemingly NEWBIE question.

Anyone ever thought about adding the archives to egroups or some other list
site that would make searching easier?

Jamey

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Keir Vaughan-Taylor [SMTP:keir at commsecure.com.au]
> Sent:	Wednesday, December 06, 2000 4:47 PM
> To:	James Sintz
> Subject:	Re: [Mailman-Users] IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/home/mailman/lists/test/config.db'
> 
> James Sintz wrote:
> 
> > Just installed Mailman and when I try to access the admin page for my
> test
> > list I get the following message in my browser.
> >
> > "Bug in Mailman version 2.0
> >
> > We're sorry, we hit a bug!
> > Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of
> > traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited,
> but
> > the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. "
> >
> > Here is what the error log says:
> >
> > Traceback (innermost last):
> >   File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 222, in ?
> >     main()
> >   File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 203, in main
> >     process_lists(lock)
> >   File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 140, in process_lists
> >     mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0)
> >   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 79, in __init__
> >     self.Load()
> >   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 891, in Load
> >     dict, e = self.__load(dbfile)
> >   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 868, in __load
> >     fp = open(dbfile)
> > IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/home/mailman/lists/test/config.db'
> >
> > Do I have something set up wrong or is this truly a bug?
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > Mailman-Users maillist  -  Mailman-Users at python.org
> > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
> 
> This is a group/ownership problem and the cron daemon can't execute the
> scripts. Two sources of error. One is that you must have user id mailman
> when
> you
> configure and set the crontab.in into you crontab directory.
> Also make sure with the --with-cgi-gid  and --with-mail-gid parameters are
> set
> corretly
> during the configuration run.   This is a major nuisance about mailman at
> present.
> Check in /etc/passwd to find the mail
> Default user.....sometimes it is called mail