[Mailman-Users] Mailman Migration Trouble

[Carlos Williams]

I am migrating mailman from server_old (RHEL 4) to server_new (RHEL
5). Its basically in all sense the same machine / arch / domain / blah
blah blah.

I am using this archive as a guide:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2007-January/055208.html

I copies everything over from my old server to the new as below:

/usr/bin/rsync -ave ssh --delete-after /var/lib/mailman/lists/
root at server_new:/var/lib/mailman/lists
/usr/bin/rsync -ave ssh --delete-after
/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/
root at server_new:/var/lib/mailman/archives/private

I skipped step 3 in the guide since the domain is identical and has no
reason to change...

I then copied all /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/*mbox/*mbox to the new
server as shown below:

/usr/bin/rsync -ave ssh --delete-after
/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/
root at server_new:/var/lib/mailman/archives/private

Now I am trying to understand step # 5 and I don't understand since my
system has no user or group called list so I can chown -R list:list.
Am I missing something? Right now since I can't execute step 5, when I
attempt to start mailman on my Linux server, I get the following
error:

[root at email cwilliams]# /etc/init.d/mailman start
Starting mailman: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 607, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 426, in main
    check_for_site_list()
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 326, in check_for_site_list
    sitelist = MailList(sitelistname, lock=0)
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 130, in __init__
    self.Load()
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 665, in Load
    self.CheckVersion(dict)
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 707, in CheckVersion
    self.InitVars()
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 404, in InitVars
    baseclass.InitVars(self)
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 96, in InitVars
    os.mkdir(self.archive_dir()+'.mbox', 02775)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/mailman.mbox'
                                                           [FAILED]


Anyone know what I am missing or doing wrong?