On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 21:26 -0400, David wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Lindsay Haisley > <fmouse-mail...@fmp.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 12:30 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > They don't eliminate the Mailman user. They just call it > 'list' rather > > than 'mailman'. > > > Actually, it's barely the same thing. It appears that qrunner > gets run > as user 'list' out of the mailman init script, but all other > Mailman > components are owned by root, group list, albeit all the > executables > have group execute enabled. > > run /usr/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms > > the -f option will fix all those permissions. It will remove root as > owner on all Mailman files. Mailman will still run just find on Ubuntu > with the proper permissions set by this script. I'm told this isn't > limited to Ubuntu, but that many other distros need to have the > check_perms script run after any new install or upgrades. > > You may have to run the script more than once. If you want to fix the > perms on the symlinks, you'll have to fix those manually with the "- > h" option on chgrp. When you finish, check_perms will return no > errors, you'll have all the permissions you want, and Mailman will run > fine. I just went through all this. See the list archives for a whole > thread with my questions on this topic. Everything is resolved now. > I'm on Ubuntu 12.04. > Thanks, David.
It's probably just as easy to bypass the precompiled Ubuntu package and work straight from the Mailman distribution. If I have issues, which are ususally creative problems with Python, I'd much rather work with the Mailman devs than with Canonical :-) ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org