On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 03:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > i setup a mailman-site and it seems to run quite smoothly. > BUT: the integration with my webserver seems to be faulty. > whenever i use the administrative web frontend, the owner > of the list *.pck files is changed to the user 'apache' (the one > my web server runs with). this leads to the cron-job gate_news > failing and complaining : > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 284, in ? > main() > File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 264, in main > process_lists(lock) > File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 199, in process_lists > mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0) > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 128, in __init__ > self.Load() > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 594, in Load > dict, e = self.__load(file) > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 560, in __load > fp = open(dbfile) > IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck' > > and so i end up receiving a huge number of errors until i reset the owner-ship ! > i tried using check_perms to fix this but check_perms indicates no problem at all. > > Any help ?? Thanks in advance! > _______________________________________________________________________
What is the Group ownership for the file? Is the suGID bit set for the directory: drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Mar 16 12:00 . drwxrwsr-x 6 root mailman 4096 Dec 22 23:52 .. -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 3389 Mar 16 09:00 config.pck.last Good Luck - Jon Carnes ------------------------------------------------------ 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/