[Mailman-Users] Strange "permission denied" cron messages

[Rasmus Resen Amossen]

I have installed mailman-2.1.5 (from source on a debian) but keep getting
the below error messages from cron. The jobs are scheduled in the crontab
for the "mailman" user.

check_perms reports "no problems found"

I can run the scripts just fine, without getting any error output, if I do
it manually as the mailman user from the shell:
   /usr/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman-2.1.5/cron/checkdbs

Also, as the mailman user, I have no problems with creating/writing to the
files and dirs that apparently have wrong permissions (according to the
cron mail).

How can I get rid of these annoying error messages?


Cron mails: ------------------------------------------------------

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.5/cron/checkdbs", line 178, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.5/cron/checkdbs", line 98, in main
    mlist.Save()
  File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.5/Mailman/MailList.py", line 528, in Save
    self.SaveRequestsDb()
  File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.5/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 121, in
SaveRequestsDb
    self.__closedb()
  File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.5/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 98, in __closedb
    fp = open(tmpfile, 'w')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/usr/local/mailman-2.1.5/lists/mailman/request.pck.tmp'

--------------------------------------------------------------

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.5/cron/senddigests", line 94, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.5/cron/senddigests", line 87, in main
    mlist.Save()
  File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.5/Mailman/MailList.py", line 525, in Save
    self.__save(dict)
  File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.5/Mailman/MailList.py", line 480, in __save
    fp = open(fname_tmp, 'w')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/usr/local/mailman-2.1.5/lists/mailman/config.pck.tmp.debian.27406'