The directories have to be set with g+s, and your OS has to respect that (i.e. new files created in such directories need to inherit the group ownership of the parent dir). I suspect that those of you having problems are either missing a g+s bit somewhere or have an OS that doesn't implement this semantic.
> I've had this same problem for quite a while on some of my lists. It > drives me bonkers. > > Dave Klingler > > > Hi. I've had a long standing problem and now a new second problem > > with file permissions/group ownership. Maybe connected? > > > > 1) Long standing problem - when I create a new list, I have to > > manually change the group permissions of the files in the > > /list/listname directory before the list would function. If I don't > > do this, I get the "we've hit a bug" message in the browser when I > > try to access the list info. > > > > 2) New problem - I've created a new list for the first time in a few > > months, and set the file permissions just like other lists I have > > that work fine. After getting everything set up and configured, I > > try and send messages through. The first message comes through OK, > > but subsequent submissions are rejected by Postfix because the > > config.db permissions are wrong. Sure enough, config.db group has > > been set to root. The web pages aren't accessible anymore either. > > I've tried this many times over and it is very repeatable. In fact, > > I've found that if I set ownership correctly, then send 2 or 3 > > messages to the list quickly they all come through. But if I wait a > > minute or so, invariably there is an error and the ownership is back > > at root. > > > > What is causing this? > > > > Rob > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
