[Mailman-Users] Permission Denied Error after List Migration

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Sascha Rissel writes:

 > (N.B: All file permissions are set according to my previous server's, but I
 > also tried: "chown -R list.list /var/lib/mailman/lists/""

Try running the bin/check_perms script (or maybe it's checkperms).
The wrapper scripts may have a different idea from you about file
owners etc.
 > 
 > Can you help me?
 > 
 > Regards,
 > Sascha.
 > 
 > > Aug 05 19:53:33 2014 (21848) Failed config.pck write, retaining old state.
 > > [Errno 13] Permission denied:
 > '/var/lib/mailman/lists/rcworms-ah/config.pck.tmp.euve51864.serverprofi24.de.21848'
 > > Aug 05 19:53:33 2014 admin(21848):
 > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
 > > admin(21848): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.15 -----]
 > > admin(21848): [----- Traceback ------]
 > > admin(21848): Traceback (most recent call last):
 > > admin(21848):   File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in
 > run_main
 > > admin(21848):     main()
 > > admin(21848):   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 227,
 > in main
 > > admin(21848):     mlist.Save()
 > > admin(21848):   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 573, in
 > Save
 > > admin(21848):     self.__save(dict)
 > > admin(21848):   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 528, in
 > __save
 > > admin(21848):     fp = open(fname_tmp, 'w')
 > > admin(21848): IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
 > '/var/lib/mailman/lists/rcworms-ah/config.pck.tmp.euve51864.serverprofi24.de.21848'
 > > admin(21848): [----- Python Information -----]
 > > admin(21848): sys.version     =   2.7.3 (default, Mar 13 2014, 11:03:55)
 > > [GCC 4.7.2]
 > > admin(21848): sys.executable  =   /usr/bin/python
 > > admin(21848): sys.prefix      =   /usr
 > > admin(21848): sys.exec_prefix =   /usr
 > > admin(21848): sys.path        =   ['/var/lib/mailman/pythonlib',
 > '/var/lib/mailman', '/usr/lib/mailman/scripts', '/var/lib/mailman',
 > '/usr/lib/python2.7/', '/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2',
 > '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-old',
 > '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages']
 > > admin(21848): sys.platform    =   linux2
 > > admin(21848): [----- Environment Variables -----]
 > > admin(21848):     HTTP_COOKIE:
 > > admin(21848):     SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache
 > > admin(21848):     SCRIPT_NAME: /mailman/admin
 > > admin(21848):     SERVER_SIGNATURE: <address>Apache Server at
 > lists.euve51864.serverprofi24.de Port 80</address>
 > > admin(21848):
 > > admin(21848):     REQUEST_METHOD: GET
 > > admin(21848):     PATH_INFO: /rcworms-ah
 > > admin(21848):     SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1
 > > admin(21848):     QUERY_STRING: adminpw=AH_MAILAdmin
 > > admin(21848):     HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64;
 > rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0
 > > admin(21848):     HTTP_CONNECTION: keep-alive
 > > admin(21848):     SERVER_NAME: lists.euve51864.serverprofi24.de
 > > admin(21848):     REMOTE_ADDR: 95.88.111.84
 > > admin(21848):     PATH_TRANSLATED:
 > /var/www/vhosts/default/htdocs/rcworms-ah
 > > admin(21848):     SERVER_PORT: 80
 > > admin(21848):     SERVER_ADDR: 62.75.175.182
 > > admin(21848):     DOCUMENT_ROOT: /var/www/vhosts/default/htdocs
 > > admin(21848):     PYTHONPATH: /var/lib/mailman
 > > admin(21848):     SCRIPT_FILENAME: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/admin
 > > admin(21848):     SERVER_ADMIN: webmaster at rc-worms.de
 > > admin(21848):     HTTP_DNT: 1
 > > admin(21848):     HTTP_HOST: lists.euve51864.serverprofi24.de
 > > admin(21848):     REQUEST_URI:
 > /mailman/admin/rcworms-ah?adminpw=AH_MAILAdmin
 > > admin(21848):     HTTP_ACCEPT:
 > text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
 > > admin(21848):     GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1
 > > admin(21848):     REMOTE_PORT: 50425
 > > admin(21848):     HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE:
 > de-de,de;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
 > > admin(21848):     HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflate
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