[Mailman-Users] Odd behaviour with ownership

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

    I run several lists on a server and every once in a while when I
check on the directory where mailman resides, I see that some of the
lists have their config.db and request.db owned by the Apache daemon,
while others have theirs owned by mailman.

list_1, all files owned mailman.mailman, EXCEPT:
-rw-rw----   1 httpd    mailman      4922 Feb 16 08:35 config.db
-rw-rw----   1 httpd    mailman      4922 Feb 16 08:34 config.db.last

list_2, all files owner mailman.mailman, EXCEPT:
-rw-rw-r--   1 httpd    mailman         2 Feb 15 17:00 request.db

list_3, all files owned mailman.mailman, INCLUDING:
-rw-rw----   1 mailman  mailman      2898 Feb 15 17:00 config.db
-rw-rw----   1 mailman  mailman      2898 Feb 15 12:00 config.db.last
-rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman         2 Feb 15 17:00 request.db


    Mailman never complains, and things seem to work fine.  But then,
there are times where it blows up while doing the checkdbs crontab.
What's even more baffling is that sometimes when the checkdbs command
fails, the files are all owned by mailman.mailman group, and the only
way to get it going again is to chown it httpd.mailman, and this only
for one list, the other ones don't cause a problem even though they're
owned mailman.mailman.

    I repeat, this ONLY happens with SOME lists, not all of them.

    All the lists were created the same exact way, and the web daemon
has not bee changed, recompiled, or anything.  Neither has mailman.
Everything works, except for that weirdness.

    Can anyone shed some light on this?

    Info:
      SGI Indy running IRIX 6.5.8m
      Mailman v2.0    (UID.GID: mailman.mailman)
      Apache v1.3.14  (UID.GID: httpd.httpd)
      Python v2.0     (UID.GID: root.sys)

    AMK4

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