Melinda Gilmore wrote: >I continue to get these messages when some cron jobs are running. I can see >that it is a permissions problems. But I have tried everything by changing >permissions and it still is having problems. This particular file that is >mentioned is not there.
So the user who's crontab ran this does not have permission to create the file. Try doing su - user where user is the user who's crontab this is, followed by touch /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/mailman/2007-October.txt.gz >Someone please help me figure this out. There has >to be some little thing I am missing. I have compared files with others >that are not getting the message and the permissions are the same. > >Your "cron" job on lists >/usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip > >produced the following output: > >Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip", line 154, in ? > main() > File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip", line 140, in main > compress(f) > File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip", line 81, in compress > outfp = gzip.open(txtfile+'.gz', 'wb', 6) > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/gzip.py", line 49, in open > return GzipFile(filename, mode, compresslevel) > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/gzip.py", line 94, in __init__ > fileobj = self.myfileobj = __builtin__.open(filename, mode or 'rb') >IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: >'/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/mailman/2007-October.txt.gz' -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9