[Mailman-Users] problems with mailman and config.db

[Michael W]

I see this in my mailman error log:

May 06 16:00:02 2001 qrunner(820): Traceback (innermost last):
May 06 16:00:02 2001 qrunner(820):   File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", 
line 283, in ?
May 06 16:00:02 2001 qrunner(820):      kids = main(lock)
May 06 16:00:02 2001 qrunner(820):   File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", 
line 239, in main
May 06 16:00:02 2001 qrunner(820):      mlist = open_list(listname)
May 06 16:00:02 2001 qrunner(820):   File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", 
line 174, in open_list
May 06 16:00:02 2001 qrunner(820):      mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, 
lock=0)
May 06 16:00:02 2001 qrunner(820):   File 
"/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 79, in __init__
May 06 16:00:02 2001 qrunner(820):      self.Load()
May 06 16:00:02 2001 qrunner(820):   File 
"/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 891, in Load
May 06 16:00:02 2001 qrunner(820):      dict, e = self.__load(dbfile)
May 06 16:00:02 2001 qrunner(820):   File 
"/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 868, in __load
May 06 16:00:02 2001 qrunner(820):      fp = open(dbfile)
May 06 16:00:02 2001 qrunner(820): IOError :  [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
'/home/mailman/lists/re/config.db'

I have run check_perms and everything is good.

I configured the app like this:

./configure --with-mail-gid=daemon

Sendmail runs as gid daemon on my system.  I've noticed that several files 
are owned by daemon.mailman

I've tried every combination of owner.group that I could think of to fix 
this problem, and even tried changing permissions (777) on the config.db* 
files, to no avail.  A hint as to what I'm doing wrong?  I followed the 
Install instructions on the list.org site, 3 times, to be sure I wasn't 
skipping a step along the way.  Some parts of the list work just fine, as 
in when I subscribe, I get the welcome message, when I create a list, the 
list admin receives their welcome message, but posting to the list 
generates the above error.  Thanks in a advance for any help on this issue.