[Mailman-Users] bug in creating list via web-admin

[Keith Mastin]

Hey all,
I was creating a testlist via the web-admin thingy, when I got the 
following error after hitting the "create list" submit button. No message 
was sent to me about the new list, even though I requested it. I 
cross-tested this by using the bin/newlist command, which was successful 
(no errors) and sent me a message regarding the new list.

This seems to be a python permissions problem from the last line of the 
output. I'm running postfix on a redhat 7.3 box.

I'm more than comfortable adding all the lists via command line, but since 
this come up I guess someone else should know about it.

Kind Regards,
Keith Mastin

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Error:

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Traceback:

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


Python information:

Variable Value
sys.version 2.2.2 (#1, Nov 22 2002, 17:25:34) [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat 
Linux 7.3 2.96-112)]
sys.executable /usr/bin/python2
sys.prefix /usr
sys.exec_prefix /usr
sys.path /usr
sys.platform linux2 


Environment variables:

Variable Value
HTTP_ACCEPT 
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,text/css,*/*;q=0.1
CONTENT_TYPE application/x-www-form-urlencoded
HTTP_REFERER https://www.mcleodlakeindianband.com/mailman/create
SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_auth_pam/1.1.1 
mod_ssl/2.8.12 OpenSSL/0.9.6b DAV/1.0.3 PHP/4.1.2 mod_perl/1.26
PYTHONPATH /web/mlib/data/mailman
SCRIPT_FILENAME /web/mlib/data/mailman/cgi-bin/create
SERVER_ADMIN webmaster at mcleodlake.com
SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/create
SERVER_SIGNATURE
REQUEST_METHOD POST
HTTP_HOST www.mcleodlakeindianband.com
HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE 300
HTTPS on
SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1
QUERY_STRING
REQUEST_URI /mailman/create
CONTENT_LENGTH 171
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET ISO-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.66, *;q=0.66
HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) 
Gecko/20021003
HTTP_CONNECTION keep-alive
HTTP_COOKIE 
testlist+admin=280200000069fc623b3e732800000031656461623332376361316334663639313839313637336464616231326666616533663366666161; 
members+admin=28020000006994643b3e732800000037356534326339353866386137386363383064336439636430303838303462666331653666393138
SERVER_NAME www.mcleodlakeindianband.com
REMOTE_ADDR 216.138.194.32
REMOTE_PORT 63243
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en-us, en;q=0.50
SERVER_PORT 443
GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate, compress;q=0.9
SERVER_ADDR 216.113.197.175
DOCUMENT_ROOT /web/mlib/html