[Mailman-Users] RH 7.1, Mailman 2.0.5, Cron - qrunner+gate_news

[Josef Mikota]

Hi there,

Although I'm sure that some people had similar problems as myself, I would 
like to post this question:

I recently installed Mailman 2.0.5 on a machine running RedHat 7.1 using 
the Sendmail MTA. The installation seemed to work fine and I'm also able to 
administer the lists via the web pages.

However, I've got a problem with Cron, namely

Traceback (innermost last):
File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 222, in ?
main()
File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 198, in main
lock.lock(timeout=0.5)
File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 219, in lock
self.__write()
File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 350, in __write
fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
'/home/mailman/locks/gate_news.lock.brutus20.mechatronik.uni-linz.ac.at.3143'

Traceback (innermost last):
File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 275, in ?
lock.lock(timeout=0.5)
File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 219, in lock
self.__write()
File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 350, in __write
fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
'/home/mailman/locks/qrunner.lock.brutus20.mechatronik.uni-linz.ac.at.3142'

To me, these messages point to a permission problem and I've also checked 
the permissions using /home/mailman/bin/check_perms -f and that didn't 
come-up with any problem.

Anyway, I hope to have stated my problem somehow correctly.

Thanks in advance,
Josef