Le Mercredi 21 Mars 2007 00:20, Mark Sapiro a écrit : > Peter wrote: > > Le Mardi 20 Mars 2007 23:53, Mark Sapiro a écrit : > >> What is the group of aliases.db? > > > > $ ls -lh /var/spool/mailman/data/aliases* > > -rw-rw---- 1 _mailman _mailman 10.4K Mar 20 > > 23:52 /var/spool/mailman/data/aliases > > -rw-r----- 1 www _mailman 64.0K Mar 20 > > 23:52 /var/spool/mailman/data/aliases.db > > Try > > chmod 660 /var/spool/mailman/data/aliases.db > chown _mailman /var/spool/mailman/data/aliases.db
That change allowed a new list to be created and subscribed to without any error. Strange that I need to first create an initial dummy list that will cause aliases.db to be created and then change its ownership and mode. > My understanding of Postfix is that it should run the pipe to the > wrapper with the group of the aliases.db file, but my understanding > could well be wrong. Maybe it runs as the user of the file and that > user's group. Thus, I suggest changing the user. > > The aliases.db must then be group writable because the web list create > runs as user www (presumably), but group _mailman because the wrappers > are group _mailman and SETGID. Ok. Thanks very much for your help. I am now going to attempt to migrate an existing mailman installation over to this new one. I sent in a post on this procedure yesterday (and you responded to it as well; thanks again!) Pedro ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
