[Mailman-Users] mailman complaining about script permissions after running normally for a period...

[Ezra Taylor]

Something is changing the ownership of your files.  The previous 
responder is right,  a cron or logrotate is doing this.

Ezra

Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 11:12 AM +0000 2005-03-04, it support wrote:
>
>>  I've tracked down the problem to the ownership of the files are 
>> changing.
>>  No longer are they being owned by mailman, but by root. I can fix the
>>  problem by resetting the ownership of the files to mailman and
>>  re-running check_perms -f to fix any stray permissions, but its
>>  frustrating for the list users who have to wait for this to be done.
>
>
>     There's nothing within Mailman that would cause this kind of 
> behaviour.
>
>>  I've checked the cron scripts on the machine and can't see anything 
>> that
>>  would affect the files in that part of the file system.
>
>
>     I don't know anything about your OS.  I'd recommend you use the 
> mailing lists, newsgroups, FAQs, etc... that are appropriate to what 
> you're running.
>
>     I can tell you that the problem may be a logfile rotation script, 
> or some other sort of cron job, or maybe it's being run indirectly -- 
> some other cron job runs some other command which results in the kind 
> of behaviour you're seeing.
>
>>  Has anyone else seen this problem and do they know the cause of it?
>
>
>     You could search the archives of the mailman-users mailing list, 
> such as described at 
> <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.018.htp>. 
> I've heard of these kinds of problems before, but I don't know if they 
> occurred on the same platform that you're running.
>