[Mailman-Users] Give me this day my daily CRON error....

[Jonathan Andrew Sheen]

Every day, I get the following Cron error from the machine I'm running my
mailing lists on:

>Return-Path: mailman at ultranet.kom.cx
>Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 17:00:02 -0400 (EDT)
>From: mailman at ultranet.kom.cx (Cron Daemon)
>To: mailman at ultranet.kom.cx
>Subject: Cron <mailman at ultranet> /usr/local/bin/python -S
/home/mailman/cron/checkdbs
>X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
>X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/mailman>
>X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
>X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=mailman>
>X-Cron-Env: <USER=mailman>
>
>Traceback (innermost last):
>  File "/home/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 92, in ?
>    main()
>  File "/home/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 59, in main
>    mlist.Save()
>  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 879, in Save
>    self.SaveRequestsDb()
>  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 93, in SaveRequestsDb
>    self.__closedb()
>  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 80, in __closedb
>    fp = open(self.__filename, 'w')
>IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/home/mailman/lists/foo-list/request.db'

The list seems to be running happily enough. What's the error mean, and
what do I do about it?

Jonathan Andrew Sheen

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