[Mailman-Users] Died with a status 1

[Cody Harris]

This is my /var/lib/mailman directory. qfiles, the one with the error is at 
drwxrwsr-x, like you said. The directory is empty.

[root at vectec mailman]# ls -l
total 68
drwxrwsr-x    4 mail     mail         4096 Apr 24 10:21 archives/
drwxrwsr-x    2 mail     mail         4096 Apr 24 10:21 bin/
drwxrwsr-x    2 mail     mail         4096 Apr 24 10:21 cgi-bin/
drwxrwsr-x    2 mail     mail         4096 Apr 24 10:23 cron/
drwxrwsr-x    2 mail     mail         4096 Apr 24 10:23 data/
drwxrwsr-x    2 mail     mail         4096 Apr 24 10:21 filters/
drwxrwsr-x    2 mail     mail         4096 Apr 24 10:21 icons/
drwxrwsr-x    3 mail     mail         4096 Apr 24 10:54 lists/
drwxrwsr-x    2 mail     mail         4096 Apr 25 15:48 locks/
drwxrwsr-x    2 mail     mail         4096 Apr 24 11:08 logs/
drwxrwsr-x    2 mail     mail         4096 Apr 24 10:21 mail/
drwxrwsr-x    8 mail     mail         4096 Apr 24 11:11 Mailman/
drwxrwsr-x    2 mail     mail         4096 Nov 29 15:24 qfiles/
drwxrwsr-x    2 mail     mail         4096 Apr 24 16:18 scripts/
drwxrwsr-x    2 mail     mail         4096 Nov 29 15:24 spam/
drwxrwsr-x    2 mail     mail         4096 Apr 24 10:21 templates/
-rw-r--r--    1 root     mail           75 Apr 24 10:22 updates.log
[root at vectec mailman]#


At 08:39 PM 4/25/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 04:29:49PM -0300, Cody Harris (CH) wrote:
>CH> Here's what was reported:
>CH>
>CH> <hchs at vectec.net>: Command died with status 1:
>CH> "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/post
>CH>     hchs". Command output: Traceback (most recent call last):   File
>CH>     "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/post", line 94, in ?     main()   File
>CH>     "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/post", line 89, in 
>main     msg.Enqueue(mlist,
>CH>     tolist=1)   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Message.py", line 176, in
>CH>     Enqueue     dbfp = Utils.open_ex(dbfile, 'w')   File
>CH>     "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 601, in open_ex     fd =
>CH>     os.open(filename, flags, perms) IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
>CH>     '/var/lib/mailman/qfiles/a14c44e59d2f81922c76d3687ca84e8359714d4c.db'
>
>The permissions on /var/lib/mailman/qfiles are not correct. Check if the
>directory exists at all, and if it does, check its permissions .. They should
>be something along the lines of:
>
>drwxrwsr-x  10 root  mailman   512 Mar  7 20:50 qfiles
>
>
>This directory should have several subdirectories with the following
>permissions:
>
>drwxrwx---  2 mailman  mailman  512 Apr 25 18:05 archive
>drwxrwx---  2 mailman  mailman  512 Apr 25 20:20 bounces
>drwxrwx---  2 mailman  mailman  512 Mar  7 20:50 commands
>drwxrwx---  2 www      mailman  512 Apr 25 20:20 in
>drwxrwx---  2 mailman  mailman  512 Apr 16 00:18 news
>drwxrwx---  2 mailman  mailman  512 Apr 25 20:20 out
>drwxrwx---  2 mailman  mailman  512 Apr 22 00:20 shunt
>drwxrws---  2 root     mailman  512 Apr 25 20:20 virgin
>
>Do note: These permissions are from my FreeBSD system .. since you use
>Mandrake (oh $DIETY) it may look a bit different.
>
>Offcourse, this is valid for Mailman 2.1.1 only .
>
>Gr,
>
>Nils.
>
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