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

[Brad Knowles]

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?

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