On Tuesday 28 September 2004 04:34 am, Tom Diehl wrote: >On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Eric Pretorious wrote: >> On Sunday 26 September 2004 01:10 pm, Eric Pretorious wrote: >> >I ran `bin/genaliases` this morning and it emptied my >> >data/virtual-mailman file. Is there any way to recover this file? e.g., >> > maybe from the data/virtual-mailman.db file? >> >> When I execute `bin/genaliases` now, it complains... >> >> >mailman # bin/genaliases >> >postmap: fatal: open /usr/local/mailman/data/virtual-mailman.db: >> > Permission denied >> >Traceback (most recent call last): >> > File "bin/genaliases", line 116, in ? >> > main() >> > File "bin/genaliases", line 106, in main >> > MTA.create(mlist, nolock=True, quiet=quiet) >> > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 232, in create >> > _update_maps() >> > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 60, in >> > _update_maps raise RuntimeError, msg % (vcmd, status, errstr) >> >RuntimeError: command failed: >> >/usr/sbin/postmap /usr/local/mailman/data/virtual-mailman (status: 1, >> > Operation not permitted) >> How can I recover from this? > >Fix the permissions/ownership of virtual-mailman. Did you actually read the >error message above??
Yes - of course I *read* the error message above. I just didn't *understand* the error message above. ;) Thanks - you were right. Somehow the file's owner had been changed from mailman to apache. -- Eric P., Sunnyvale, CA ------------------------------------------------------ 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/
