[Mailman-Users] cron error : gate_news, permission denied

[Steve Pirk]

Unless you are using the "gateway to news" functions in mailman,
this cron entry can be commented out or removed. Not sure why you
are getting the error, but commenting out the cron entry is a 
quick fix :-)

Steve
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On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Murat Balkas wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>     I get this error almost every minute. If check the permissions I see
> that config.db of all lists are owned by nobody ( web user ). Is it not
> okey? Should I chown?
> 
> Your "cron" job on mail
> /usr/local/bin/python -S /export/home/mailman//cron/gate_news
> 
> produced the following output:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/export/home/mailman//cron/gate_news", line 222, in ?
>     main()
>   File "/export/home/mailman//cron/gate_news", line 203, in main
>     process_lists(lock)
>   File "/export/home/mailman//cron/gate_news", line 140, in process_lists
>     mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0)
>   File "/export/home/mailman//Mailman/MailList.py", line 79, in __init__
>     self.Load()
>   File "/export/home/mailman//Mailman/MailList.py", line 891, in Load
>     dict, e = self.__load(dbfile)
>   File "/export/home/mailman//Mailman/MailList.py", line 868, in __load
>     fp = open(dbfile)
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/export/home/mailman/lists/test1/config.db'
> 
> 
> 
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