[Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1b2 installed and working (almost).

[Jon Parise]

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:29:18PM -0700, Rob Brandt wrote:

> I've gotten Mailman 2.1b2 installed on my new linux server.  It's using 
> Postfix as an MTA.  I can create lists, but an error is generated.  The 
> list does exists, and I can edit it and everything.  But it seems that 
> there's a problem with creating aliases for it.  See the error page pasted 
> in below.
> 
> I suspect that it's a permissions problem, but at this late time of night, 
> I can no longer see the forest for the trees.  Initially I did get in the 
> infamous 'wanted uid 99, got 48' error.  Miraculously, I remember getting 
> that when I installed v2.05 last summer, and the solution to run apache as 
> uid/gid nobody.  Here's the error page:

[snip]
 
> RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias 
> /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted)
 
Is /usr/sbin/postalias the correct path to postalias?  How are the
permissions set for /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases?

I have virtually the same setup working fine here, so it's probably
just a permissions mismatch, as you say.

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