[Mailman-Users] Mailman errors

[james edwards]

I am new to mailman and am getting these error messages where this job runs.
I just took over this position from a sysadmin
who died suddenly & have not run mailman b4. Can someone please get me an
idea as to what is happening/wrong here ?

james


[Mailman] Cron <mailman at xxxx> /usr/lib/mailman/cron/disabled


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/disabled", line 220, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/disabled", line 204, in main
    mlist.sendNextNotification(member)
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Bouncer.py", line 262, in
sendNextNotification
    msg.send(self)
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Message.py", line 233, in send
    self._enqueue(mlist, **_kws)
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Message.py", line 244, in _enqueue
    reduced_list_headers = 1,
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py", line 126, in enqueue
    fp = open(tmpfile, 'w')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/var/spool/mailman/virgin/1140192002.2231879+5b7772b3a7480ee71de81b2b33185c05cf5562b5.pck.tmp'


[root at xxxx root]# rpm -q mailman
mailman-2.1.5-32.fc3
[root at xxxx root]# uname -a
Linux xxxx.nmcourts.com 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3smp #1 SMP Fri Oct 21 04:03:26 EDT
2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root at xxxx root]# cd /var/spool/
[root at xxxx spool]# ls -la

drwxrwsr-x  11 root    mailman   116 Nov  1 15:49 mailman

[root at xxxx spool]# cd mailman/
[root at xxxx mailman]# ls -la

drwxrws---   2 root   mailman    6 Feb 17 10:09 virgin
[root at xxxx mailman]# cd virgin/
[root at xxxx virgin]# ls -la
total 0
drwxrws---   2 root mailman   6 Feb 17 10:09 .
drwxrwsr-x  11 root mailman 116 Nov  1 15:49 ..
[root at xxxx virgin]#