[Mailman-Users] Cron error: /usr/bin/python -S /var/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs

[John Dennis]

On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 08:09 -0700, James wrote:
> I have yet another cron error that I get every day in my mail. I'm not
> sure what it is.
> 
> 
> 
> Cron <mailman at mail> /usr/bin/python -S /var/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 178, in ?
>     main()
>   File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 84, in main
>     mlist = MailList.MailList(name)
>   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 126, in __init__
>     self.Lock()
>   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 159, in Lock
>     self.__lock.lock(timeout)
>   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 243, in lock
>     self.__write()
>   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 422, in __write
>     fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w')
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/var/lib/mailman/locks/mailman.lock.mail.6528.0'

I'm assuming you installed your cron entries using crontab and not
via /etc/cron.d, if so then did you remember to add "-u mailman" to the
crontab command so the scripts execute as the mailman user? (If you
used /etc/cron.d scripts then the user name goes into the cron file as
the 6th field).

If cron is executing your mailman scripts as the user mailman then look
at the file permissions on the lock file, its possible it got created
with the wrong permissions during an earlier snafu with incorrect
installation.
-- 
John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>