Hi, I am new to mailman and after "apt-get install mailman" following the INSTALL doc I tried a check_perms, that gave me lots of errors. Trying to fix these with -f gave even more errors.
Is this normal? Did I something wrong? Are there any special things I have to do to get it running? Thanks for your attention! debian:/usr/lib/mailman/bin$ ./check_perms /var/lib/mailman/archives bad gid (has: list, expected <anon gid 38>) /var/lib/mailman/lists bad gid (has: list, expected <anon gid 38>) /var/lib/mailman/qfiles bad gid (has: list, expected <anon gid 38>) /var/lib/mailman/data bad gid (has: list, expected <anon gid 38>) /var/lib/mailman/spam bad gid (has: list, expected <anon gid 38>) /var/lib/mailman/icons bad gid (has: list, expected <anon gid 38>) /var/lib/mailman/templates bad gid (has: list, expected <anon gid 38>) /var/lib/mailman/logs bad gid (has: list, expected <anon gid 38>) /var/lib/mailman/locks bad gid (has: list, expected <anon gid 38>) /var/lib/mailman/Mailman bad gid (has: list, expected <anon gid 38>) /var/lib/mailman/bin bad gid (has: list, expected <anon gid 38>) /var/lib/mailman/cron bad gid (has: list, expected <anon gid 38>) /var/lib/mailman/filters bad gid (has: list, expected <anon gid 38>) /var/lib/mailman/mail bad gid (has: list, expected <anon gid 38>) /var/lib/mailman/scripts bad gid (has: list, expected <anon gid 38>) /var/lib/mailman/mailman bad gid (has: list, expected <anon gid 38>) /var/lib/mailman/archives/private bad gid (has: list, expected <anon gid 38>) /var/lib/mailman/archives/public bad gid (has: list, expected <anon gid 38>) /var/lib/mailman/data/pending_subscriptions.db bad gid (has: list, expected <anon gid 38>) /var/lib/mailman/data/last_mailman_version bad gid (has: list, expected <anon gid 38>) Problems found: 20 Re-run as uid 38 (or root) with -f flag to fix debian:/usr/lib/mailman/bin$ ./check_perms -f /var/lib/mailman/archives bad gid (has: list, expected <anon gid 38>) (fixing) Traceback (most recent call last): File "./check_perms", line 277, in ? checkall() File "./check_perms", line 137, in checkall os.path.walk(d, checkwalk, STATE) File "/usr/lib/python2.1/posixpath.py", line 269, in walk func(arg, top, names) File "./check_perms", line 100, in checkwalk os.chown(path, -1, MAILMAN_GID) OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/var/lib/mailman/archives' Have a nice thread, Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]