[Mailman-Users] Problem with moving lists...

[Peter Bates]

Hello all...

I've had the following problem with moving an old
list from a version of Mailman (2.x) to a recent
(mailman-2.0beta5) ...

When I go to the admin page for a list I have moved
(I've only moved one!)... I get:

(Bug in Mailman version 2.0beta5

We're sorry, we hit a bug!)

Traceback:

Traceback (innermost last):
   File "/usr/share/mailman/scripts/driver", line 96, in run_main
     main()
   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 136, in main
     mlist.Save()
   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 851, in Save
     self.CheckHTMLArchiveDir()
   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 264, 
in CheckHTMLArchiveDir
     makelink(privdir, pubdir)
   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 42, in makelink
     os.symlink(old, new)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied

This is obviously just a problem with creating a file or
symlink involving permissions, but not understanding mailman,
or Python to any degree, I don't understand what is happening here.

The actual piper-mail archives are fine, i.e. I can access
/pipermail/listname/, and also get /listinfo/listname
(listname is web-design in this case), but it only seems to
be the admin interface that is broken after my attempt at moving
the config of the 'old' mailman lists to the new box...

Can anyone suggest where my problem lies?

Thanks!