[Mailman-Users] Problem Occurs After No Problem

[Pete Holsberg]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Pete Holsberg wrote:

> All of a sudden, I cannot create a new mailing list! Here's
> the traceback:
> 
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "./newlist", line 146, in ?
>     raise SystemExit(main(sys.argv))
>   File "./newlist", line 93, in main
>     newlist.Create(list_name, owner_mail, pw)
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 729, in Create
>     self.Lock()
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1373, in Lock
>     self.__lock.lock()
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 238, in lock
>     self.__write()                # steal
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 141, in __write
>     fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w')
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/mailman/locks/<site>.lock.saturn.m
> ccc.edu.1466'
> 
> Any thoughts on what mught be wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> Pete

I should add that, in 1999, I successfully created about a
dozen mailing lists.

Pete