[Mailman-Users] Error when creating lists on the Web interface

[Mark Sapiro]

Michael Thompson wrote:

>When I try to create a new list using the Web interface, i get the
>following nasty looking error screen in the browser
>
>Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5
>
>We're sorry, we hit a bug!
>
<snip>
>OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
>'/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/announce.mbox'
>
<snip>
>
>Is this a simple as changing the permissions of the directory it is
>complaing about, or something else?
>
>The permissions of /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/ is:
>
>root at polaris / # ls -all /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/
>total 16
>drwxr-x--x  4 mailman mailman 4096 Jan  6 10:08 .

I think this is the problem.

The archives/private/ directory should be group writable, i.e.
drwxrwx--x. On my system it also has setgid, i.e. drwxrws--x, but I'm
not sure that's necessary.

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