[Mailman-Users] Permissions error

[David Gordon]

Danny Terweij danny at terweij.nl wrote on Wed 27 Nov 2002 at 20:31 +0100

>Try to run check_perms -f serveral times

Done that

>[mailman at epuk bin]$ /home/mailman/bin/check_perms -f
>directory permissions must be at least 02775: /home/mailman/cgi-bin (fixing)
>/home/mailman/cgi-bin/admin must be set-gid (fixing)
>/home/mailman/cgi-bin/admindb must be set-gid (fixing)
>/home/mailman/cgi-bin/edithtml must be set-gid (fixing)
>/home/mailman/cgi-bin/options must be set-gid (fixing)
>/home/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo must be set-gid (fixing)
>/home/mailman/cgi-bin/subscribe must be set-gid (fixing)
>/home/mailman/cgi-bin/roster must be set-gid (fixing)
>/home/mailman/cgi-bin/handle_opts must be set-gid (fixing)
>/home/mailman/cgi-bin/private must be set-gid (fixing)
>Problems found: 10
>Re-run as mailman (or root) with -f flag to fix
>You have mail in /var/spool/mail/admin
>[mailman at epuk bin]$ /home/mailman/bin/check_perms -f
>No problems found
>[mailman at epuk bin]$ 

but still getting this

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 222, in ?
    main()
  File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 198, in main
    lock.lock(timeout=0.5)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 219, in lock
    self.__write()
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 350, in __write
    fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/mailman/locks/
gate_news.lock.epuk.thenexus.co.uk.6655'

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DG