[Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 3, Issue 53

[Greg Westin]

Check the archives for this... I remember reading posts about this maybe a
month ago, but I don't remember if it was solved or not.  Sorry I can't be
of more help.

-Greg

> From: Steve Rifkin <steve410 at cs.jhu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Passwords of members  UPDATE
>
> WHOA!  Here is something weird... all my mailman files are owned by user mailman
> and group mailman.
>
> At the list level, for a test list (mmtest), the dir looks like:
>
> -rw-rw----   1 mailman  mailman      3082 Dec 27 11:48 config.db
> -rw-rw----   1 mailman  mailman      3082 Dec 27 11:47 config.db.last
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman       869 Dec 26 16:57 request.db
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman       189 Jan 30  2002 handle_opts.html
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman      1026 Jan 30  2002 headfoot.html
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman      3136 Jan 30  2002 listinfo.html
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman      4106 Jan 30  2002 options.html
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman      1169 Jan 30  2002 roster.html
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman       198 Jan 30  2002 subscribe.html
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman      1706 Jan 30  2002 admindbpreamble.html
>
>
>  That's ok.  HOWEVER, whenever I log into a list or try to make changes to a
> list as the site admin, the ownership changes for config.db:
>
>  -rw-rw----   1 nobody   mailman      3082 Dec 27 11:50 config.db
> -rw-rw----   1 mailman  mailman      3082 Dec 27 11:48 config.db.last
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman       869 Dec 26 16:57 request.db
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman       189 Jan 30  2002 handle_opts.html
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman      1026 Jan 30  2002 headfoot.html
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman      3136 Jan 30  2002 listinfo.html
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman      4106 Jan 30  2002 options.html
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman      1169 Jan 30  2002 roster.html
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman       198 Jan 30  2002 subscribe.html
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman      1706 Jan 30  2002 admindbpreamble.html
>
>
> And the filesize for config.db does not change.  I suspect that the config.db
> file is not changing at all when I attempt changes logged in as the site admin.
>
> The only change to the file is config.db's ownership keeps changing to nobody!
>
> Why?
>
> Maybe the above is a clue to the problem!
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Steve
> steve410 at cs.jhu.edu