30-Jan-03 at 00:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > Hi there, > > this may seem to you as a simple question, but I'd appreciate some help. I've run > mailman's configure-script with the option --with-cgi-gid=www and --with-mail-gid=- > 2. Now when I'm trying to create a list via www with the create-script, I get the > error: RuntimeError: command failed: /sw/sbin/postalias > /Users/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted). Which certainly > is a permissions problem, because running postalias directly as the user mailman > updates aliases.db without problems. And, btw, the new list appears correctly in > the aliases file. > > But I don't understand at which end this is wrong. Was the cgi-gid set wrong? Or > do I need to change the ownership of the aliases files? check-perms renders no > errors. Do I need to tell mailman/create.py to run postaliases as user mailman, and > if so, how do I do that?
Does postalias run as www ? Anything created via the web is going to run as the cgi-gid, i.e. www -- |-Simon White, Internet Services Manager, Certified Check Point CCSA. |-MTDS Internet, Security, Anti-Virus, Linux and Hosting Solutions. |-MTDS 14, rue du 16 novembre, Agdal, Rabat, Morocco. |-MTDS tel +212.3.767.4861 - fax +212.3.767.4863 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: archive@jab.org Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
