[Mailman-Users] Bug in Mailman version 2.1

[Mike Gideon]

Still trying to get this working.  I found a bit of information from
yesterday, telling me to install the Python Development RPM if I installed
mailman from a Linux package manager.  After that, and adding this to my
mm_cfg.py
MTA = 'Postfix'
POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = []
POSTFIX_ALIAS_CMD = '/usr/sbin/postalias'
POSTFIX_MAP_CMD = '/usr/sbin/postmap'

And clicking on the "create list" from the /mailman/create page.
I don't want to give up yet, but this is my 4th day at this.  Is there
another good listserv program out there that anyone would recomend?


Bug in Mailman version 2.1
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Traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main
    main()
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 55, in main
    process_request(doc, cgidata)
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 217, in process_request
    sys.modules[modname].create(mlist, cgi=1)
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 226, in create
    _update_maps()
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 47, in _update_maps
    raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr)
RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias
/var/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted)



Python information:
Variable	Value	
sys.version	2.2.2 (#1, Feb 24 2003, 19:13:11) [GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat
Linux 3.2.2-4)] 	
sys.executable	/usr/bin/python 	
sys.prefix	/usr 	
sys.exec_prefix	/usr 	
sys.path	/usr 	
sys.platform	linux2 	

Environment variables:
Variable	Value	
CONTENT_LENGTH 	137 	
CONTENT_TYPE 	application/x-www-form-urlencoded 	
HTTP_REFERER 	http://listserv.miis.edu/mailman/create 	
SCRIPT_FILENAME 	/var/mailman/cgi-bin/create 	
PYTHONPATH 	/var/mailman 	
SERVER_SOFTWARE 	Apache/2.0.40 (Red Hat Linux) 	
SERVER_ADMIN 	root at localhost 	
SCRIPT_NAME 	/mailman/create 	
SERVER_SIGNATURE 	Apache/2.0.40 Server at listserv.miis.edu Port 80	
REQUEST_METHOD 	POST 	
HTTP_HOST 	listserv.miis.edu 	
SERVER_PROTOCOL 	HTTP/1.1 	
QUERY_STRING 		
HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL 	no-cache 	
REQUEST_URI 	/mailman/create 	
HTTP_ACCEPT 	image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg,
application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-excel,
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, */* 	
HTTP_USER_AGENT 	Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) 	
HTTP_CONNECTION 	Keep-Alive 	
SERVER_NAME 	listserv.miis.edu 	
REMOTE_ADDR 	192.168.1.3 	
REMOTE_PORT 	53109 	
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE 	en-us 	
UNIQUE_ID 	oFju-X8AAAEAAAbnDbcAAAAG 	
SERVER_PORT 	80 	
GATEWAY_INTERFACE 	CGI/1.1 	
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING 	gzip, deflate 	
SERVER_ADDR 	192.168.1.23 	
DOCUMENT_ROOT 	/var/www/html