[Mailman-Users] mailman cron throwingpersistentlockerror(IOError:[Errno2] No such file or directory...)

[Mark Sapiro]

Bob R wrote:
>
>I short-circuited the cron to run now, and it does indeed move on to the
>next list:
>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 203, in <module>
>    main()
>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 86, in main
>    mlist = MailList.MailList(name)
>  File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 128, in __init__
>    self.Lock()
>  File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 161, in Lock
>    self.__lock.lock(timeout)
>  File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 243, in lock
>    self.__write()
>  File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 422, in __write
>    fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w')
>IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
>'/var/lib/mailman/locks/differentlist.lock.mydomain.com.1200.0'


OK. so none of the crons are able to create locks for any list.
Although it's puzzling why it's error 2 when run by cron and error 13
when run from the command line as the same user.


>:/www/lists/conf$ ls -ld /var/lock/mailman
>drwxrwsr-x 2 root list 80 Mar 27 18:31 /var/lock/mailman


How about

ls -ld /var/lock

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