[Mailman-Users] /root/6lcnGM: Permission denied

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Tue Oct 21 01:58:49 CEST 2003


On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 17:32, Timothy Brooks wrote:
> For some reason, when half the people on my list send a message to the 
> list, it comes through like this:
> 
> /root/6lcnGM: Permission denied
> 
> The characters after /root/ are different each time.  This has only begun 
> with the implementation of the new filtering controls, and it seems to be 
> affecting only people using a Web mail client.
> 
> The latest version of Mailman appears to be buggy, but I cannot tell.  Has 
> anyone else had this error?
> 
> Tim

Check the configuration of your new filtering controls - it looks like
it's trying to create temporary files in root's home directory.

I've never seen anything like this be a Mailman problem.

Jon Carnes





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