[Mailman-Users] postfix and mailman

lenny lenny at frodo.aecom.yu.edu
Wed Jan 26 19:51:18 CET 2005


postfix, mailman, solaris.

I keep getting this error when creating lists via web interface.
all data/alias* files are owned by mailman:mailman and I have the mta
defined as postfix and /usr/local/data/aliases as postfix alias map.
It seems that after I run bin/genaliases command manually, things move 
on. the list can be managed and mail gets delivered, but it's not good 
enough, since the list owner never gets the "list created" message 
because of this error and obviously I don't want to have to run 
genaliases all the time.

Also, postfix complains for some reason. Should it even be trying this ?


open /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases.pag: Permission denied



Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main
     main()
   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 55, in main
     process_request(doc, cgidata)
   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 226, in 
process_request
     sys.modules[modname].create(mlist, cgi=1)
   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 232, in create
     _update_maps()
   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 53, in 
_update_maps
     raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr)
RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias 
/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Not owner)



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