[Mailman-Users] permission problems with new install...

[Dave Klingler]

Excellent!  Someone else has the same problem I have.  I can't offer any help,
but I can say that I've run into this problem too on two of my virtual servers
and maybe now we can track down what we have in common.  My installations 
are on virtual servers in chrooted environments.  Can you offer some details
on the differences between your working installation and your non-working
one?

Like you, I've already installed Mailman and have successfully created working
installations.  For some reason, though, my virtual installations always need
to have the permissions changed to be fairly permiscuous in order to get 
things to work.  I've checked the UID and GID of my working vs. non-working
installations; both match.  The permissions of my working vs. non-working 
installations match as well.

Dave Klingler

> >>> Demian Hanks <demian at csbs.utah.edu> 2001/01/04 12:22:08 >>>
> I'm setting up a new Mailman server to replace an old one, and I'm running into the
> "Bug in Mailman 2.0..." message when I try to go to the initial admin page, or even the 
> base listinfo.cgi page.
> 
> It appears that there is a permission problem with perms on the config.db file and/or the
> lock directory. As far as I can tell the cgi-bin is working for other sites, but this one 
> still has problems. I can't see any differences in perm between my functional server and 
> this new one. I will attach the traceback below. The machine is running Solaris 2.6,
> patched current.
> 
> When calling <site>.edu/cgi-bin/listinfo.cgi/test3 
> I wind up with the attached traceback.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> -Demian
> 
> 
> Jan 04 03:14:16 2001 admin(6878): @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> admin(6878): [----- Mailman Version: 2.0 -----]
> admin(6878): [----- Traceback ------]
> admin(6878): Traceback (most recent call last):
> admin(6878):   File "/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 96, in run_main
> admin(6878):     main()
> admin(6878):   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py", line 42, in main
> admin(6878):     mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0)
> admin(6878):   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 79, in __init__
> admin(6878):     self.Load()
> admin(6878):   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 891, in Load
> admin(6878):     dict, e = self.__load(dbfile)
> admin(6878):   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 868, in __load
> admin(6878):     fp = open(dbfile)
> admin(6878): IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/export/space/mailman/lists/test3/config.db'
> admin(6878): [----- Python Information -----]
> admin(6878): sys.version    = 2.0 (#1, Dec  6 2000, 22:04:56) 
> [GCC 2.8.1]
> admin(6878): sys.executable = /usr/local/bin/python
> admin(6878): sys.prefix     = /usr/local
> admin(6878): sys.exec_prefix= /usr/local
> admin(6878): sys.path       = /usr/local
> admin(6878): sys.platform   = sunos5
> admin(6878): [----- Environment Variables -----]
> admin(6878):    DOCUMENT_ROOT: /export/space/mailman
> admin(6878):    HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip
> admin(6878):    HTTP_PRAGMA: no-cache
> admin(6878):    SERVER_PORT: 80
> admin(6878):    PATH_TRANSLATED: /export/space/mailman/test3
> admin(6878):    SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache/1.3.14
> admin(6878):    HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en
> admin(6878):    REMOTE_PORT: 2984
> admin(6878):    HTTP_CONNECTION: Keep-Alive
> admin(6878):    HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/4.74 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U)
> admin(6878):    HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET: iso-8859-1,*,utf-8
> admin(6878):    HTTP_ACCEPT: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg,
> image/png, */*
> admin(6878):    REQUEST_URI: /cgi-bin/listinfo.cgi/test3
> admin(6878):    QUERY_STRING: 
> admin(6878):    SCRIPT_FILENAME: /export/space/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo.cgi
> admin(6878):    PATH_INFO: /test3
> admin(6878):    REQUEST_METHOD: GET
> admin(6878):    SCRIPT_NAME: /cgi-bin/listinfo.cgi
> admin(6878):    SERVER_ADMIN: webmaster at csbs.utah.edu 
> admin(6878):    GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1
> admin(6878):    PYTHONPATH: /home/mailman
> admin(6878):    HTTP_COOKIE: SITESERVER=ID=0d32b49f441ad4d07be8d46527013a72
> admin(6878):    TZ: US/Mountain
> admin(6878):    SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.0
> 
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