Michael Thompson wrote: >When I try to create a new list using the Web interface, i get the >following nasty looking error screen in the browser > >Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5 > >We're sorry, we hit a bug! > <snip> >OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: >'/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/announce.mbox' > <snip> > >Is this a simple as changing the permissions of the directory it is >complaing about, or something else? > >The permissions of /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/ is: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] / # ls -all /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/ >total 16 >drwxr-x--x 4 mailman mailman 4096 Jan 6 10:08 .
I think this is the problem. The archives/private/ directory should be group writable, i.e. drwxrwx--x. On my system it also has setgid, i.e. drwxrws--x, but I'm not sure that's necessary. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ 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/
