[Mailman-Users] Problems with permissions on aliases.db file

[jiands]

664 would be fine.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad Knowles" <brad.knowles at skynet.be>
To: "Ryan Shultz" <RSHULTZ at kirkwood.edu>
Cc: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Problems with permissions on aliases.db file


> At 2:57 PM -0500 2003/06/27, Ryan Shultz wrote:
> 
> >  I have a problem with the aliases.db file for a postfix install with the
> >  newest mailman on rehat 9.  In the maillog of the box every time I send
> >  to it it says that permission denied.  I have used the check_perms
> >  script and everything is fine.  I am at a loss.  It does not seem to
> >  want to work.  It was recognizing the aliases entries before but I must
> >  have changed something to make it stop.  Any help?
> 
> This sounds like a postfix problem, not an issue with mailman. 
> Have you tried the postfix-users mailing list?
> 
> 
> In general, these files should be owned by "root", and should not 
> be group-writable, nor should any of the directories in the path to 
> this file be group-writable (i.e., if it's in /etc/postfix, then 
> neither /, nor /etc, nor /etc/postfix should be group-writable, and 
> they should all be owned by root).  Have you tried running the 
> "newaliases" command?
> 
> -- 
> Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>
> 
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
>      -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
> 
> GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+
> !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++)
> tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)
> 
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