[Mailman-Users] Error using postfix and mailman

[Todd]

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mmckenzie at unmc.edu wrote:
> I was trying to create a list via the cgi scripts but recieved the
> following error!
[...]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main
>     main()
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 55, in main
>     process_request(doc, cgidata)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 217, in
> process_request
>     sys.modules[modname].create(mlist, cgi=1)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 226, in create
>     _update_maps()
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 47, in
> _update_maps
>     raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr)
> RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias
> /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted)

The permissions of /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases are likely not correct.
They should be something like:

    # ls -l aliases
    -rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman      4.0k Feb  8 00:04 aliases

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