Cheers,
I've eventually tracked it down to a sophos installation script. sophos, was being installed in the wrong place and that was affecting the file ownerships
Jaso
Ezra Taylor wrote:
Something is changing the ownership of your files. The previous responder is right, a cron or logrotate is doing this.
Ezra
Brad Knowles wrote:
At 11:12 AM +0000 2005-03-04, it support wrote:
I've tracked down the problem to the ownership of the files are changing.
No longer are they being owned by mailman, but by root. I can fix the
problem by resetting the ownership of the files to mailman and
re-running check_perms -f to fix any stray permissions, but its
frustrating for the list users who have to wait for this to be done.
There's nothing within Mailman that would cause this kind of behaviour.
I've checked the cron scripts on the machine and can't see anything that
would affect the files in that part of the file system.
I don't know anything about your OS. I'd recommend you use the mailing lists, newsgroups, FAQs, etc... that are appropriate to what you're running.
I can tell you that the problem may be a logfile rotation script, or some other sort of cron job, or maybe it's being run indirectly -- some other cron job runs some other command which results in the kind of behaviour you're seeing.
Has anyone else seen this problem and do they know the cause of it?
You could search the archives of the mailman-users mailing list, such as described at <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.018.htp>. I've heard of these kinds of problems before, but I don't know if they occurred on the same platform that you're running.
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