Hi folks, Following up on what I wrote yesterday, I got this cron report in my email this morning. Might this explain why I'm seeing the mailman problems that I'm seeing?
Also, root:root owns a lot of the mailman files. Does the owner matter much? Thanks for any help you can give me. This is a highly irritating problem - and vaguely urgent, since I want to get a mailing list up and running to discuss a friend's upcoming bachelor party. :-) Thanks, Steve ----- Forwarded message from Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron <root@bertrandrussell> test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 06:33:04 -0400 /etc/cron.daily/mailman: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 92, in ? main() File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 41, in main mlist = MailList.MailList(name) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 77, in __init__ self.Lock() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1340, in Lock self.__lock.lock(timeout) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 219, in lock self.__write() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 350, in __write fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/locks/bachelor_party.lock.bertrandrussell.10065' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 65, in ? main() File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 42, in main send_list_digest(mlist) File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 46, in send_list_digest mlist.Lock() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1340, in Lock self.__lock.lock(timeout) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 219, in lock self.__write() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 350, in __write fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/locks/bachelor_party.lock.bertrandrussell.10067' run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/mailman exited with return code 1 ----- End forwarded message ----- -- "The gift of compressing the largest number of words into the smallest amount of thought" -Winston Churchill, on Prime Minister Ramsay McDonald (whom Churchill also labeled "the boneless wonder")
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