[Mailman-Users] Need help very badly

[Kaiser Ahmed]

Hi,

I am a new user of mailman. I setup my server and tried to create a mailing list. The following massage occurred. I don't know how to solve it. Please suggest me the steps to be taken to solve this issue.

Thanking you,

Kaiser Ahmed
System Engineer
BSS, Dhaka.
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Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5

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Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 55, in main
    process_request(doc, cgidata)
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 187, in process_request
    mlist.Create(listname, owner, pw, langs, emailhost)
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 457, in Create
    self.InitVars(name, admin, crypted_password)
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 372, in InitVars
    baseclass.InitVars(self)
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 95, in InitVars
    os.mkdir(self.archive_dir()+'.mbox', 02775)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/english_news.mbox'




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Python information:
      Variable Value 
      sys.version 2.3.4 (#1, Nov 4 2004, 14:06:56) [GCC 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)]  
      sys.executable /usr/bin/python  
      sys.prefix /usr  
      sys.exec_prefix /usr  
      sys.path /usr  
      sys.platform linux2  




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Environment variables:
      Variable Value 
      HTTP_REFERER  http://mail.bssnews.org/mailman/create  
      SERVER_SOFTWARE  Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat)  
      SCRIPT_NAME  /mailman/create  
      SERVER_SIGNATURE  Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat) Server at mail.bssnews.org Port 80 
      REQUEST_METHOD  POST  
      SERVER_PROTOCOL  HTTP/1.0  
      QUERY_STRING   
      CONTENT_LENGTH  146  
      HTTP_CONNECTION  keep-alive  
      SERVER_NAME  mail.bssnews.org  
      REMOTE_ADDR  202.84.38.126  
      HTTP_VIA  1.1 gateway.bss-bd.com:8080 (squid/2.5.STABLE6)  
      SERVER_PORT  80  
      SERVER_ADDR  202.84.38.126  
      DOCUMENT_ROOT  /var/www/html  
      PYTHONPATH  /usr/lib/mailman  
      SCRIPT_FILENAME  /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/create  
      SERVER_ADMIN  root at localhost  
      HTTP_HOST  mail.bssnews.org  
      HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL  no-cache, max-age=259200  
      REQUEST_URI  /mailman/create  
      HTTP_ACCEPT  image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, */*  
      GATEWAY_INTERFACE  CGI/1.1  
      HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR  192.168.0.31  
      REMOTE_PORT  51774  
      HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE  en-us  
      CONTENT_TYPE  application/x-www-form-urlencoded  
      HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING  gzip, deflate