[Mailman-Users] OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/list/attachments: No such file or directory

[David]

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:19 AM, David <dave at fiteyes.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:48 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>wrote:
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>> David writes:
>>
>>  > apparently I missed something. The problem was simply permissions --
>> the
>>  > well-known Ubuntu issue.
>>
>> Not just Ubuntu.  I believe pretty much every system that Mailman runs
>> on runs into these issues every once in a while.
>>
>> It's important to run bin/check_perms every time you upgrade, and
>> check the output carefully (IIRC setup.py runs it automatically, so
>> the important part is checking the output).  If it's not 100% clean,
>> then run "bin/check_perms -f".  Sometimes multiple runs are
>> necessary.
>>
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>
Here is some unexpected behavior:

root at localhost:/var/lib/mailman# bin/check_perms -f
/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/list/2012-May/index.html bad group (has:
www-data, expected list) (fixing)
Problems found: 1
Re-run as list (or root) with -f flag to fix

Re-running multiple times doesn't fix this.

Checking permissions shows that it has the correct group (list):

-rw-rw-r-- 1 list list  1037 May  8 14:02 index.html

Any recommendation on fixing this?

I fixed the other group problems with the help of this blog post:
http://www.mydigitallife.info/change-group-ownership-of-symbolic-links-in-unix-or-linux/


chgrp can be used to change group ownership of files and directories in
> almost all UNIX-variant platforms, including Linux such as Fedora Core,
> Ubunto and etc. However, if you try to change the group membership of a
> symbolic link, the group ownership of its referenced or linked file is
> changed instead.
>
> This is the default behavior of chgrp command, where dereference option is
> used by default so that all changes will affect the referent of each
> symbolic link, rather than the symbolic link itself.
>
> To change the group ownership of symbolic link, simply use the -h or
> –no-dereference flag to the chgrp command.
>
> Example:
>
> chgrp -h new_group symbolic_link_name
>