[Mailman-Users] Illegal list name: mailman at farsight-gentoo

[Dan Phillips]

On Oct 4, 2005, at 9:29 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Dan Phillips wrote:
>
>> On Oct 3, 2005, at 3:41 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>
>>> $ ls -al /usr/local/mailman/data
>>> -rw-rw----   1 mailman mailman   357 Oct  3 16:22 aliases
>>> -rw-r-----   1 mailman mailman 49152 Oct  3 16:22 aliases.db
>>>
>> I can't answer your main question, but I can tell you that you  
>> will  get a permissions error when you try to create a list  
>> through the web  interface with the above setup. aliases.db must  
>> be group writable.
>>
>
> Where do you see that ?
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/node13.html
> ...
> If Dan is correct could someone update the documentation, then :
>
>         % su
>         % chown mailman:mailman data/aliases*
>         % chmod g+w data/aliases.db

See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq06.009.htp

AFAIK, this is a problem only with Postfix (?) and it's not caught or  
fixed by check_perms.

Dan