David Renstrom wrote: > >Everytime I create a new list using the Web interface in Mailman I get the >following error: > >Bug in Mailman version 2.1.14 >We're sorry, we hit a bug! >Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of >traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but >the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. > >The file /etc/mailman/Virtual-mailman has changed ownership from mailman to >apache. I have to change it manually and then run the genaliases and postmap >commands to make the system work correctly again.
The owner of virtual-mailman shouldn't matter. The fact that this file is in /etc/mailman/ rather than Mailman's data/ directory tells me you are running someone's package. Please see the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/OIDD>. This could be a permissions or a SELinux issue. What gets updated when you run genaliases? It should run both the postalias and postmap commands. Do these succeed when you run genaliases. You seem to imply that postalias succeeds, but postmap fails and you need to run it by hand. >Could someone please tell me what's wrong because I'm kinda lost? See below >for more info. > >Content of /var/log/mailman/error: >Aug 20 23:54:13 2012 (29703) command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias >/etc/mailman/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted) Here it is postalias that fails. This has nothing to do with virtual-mailman. It is reading /etc/mailman/aliases and updating /etc/mailman/aliases.db and apparently doesn't have permission to do so. If things are as they should be, the create process should be running as the apache user with effective group = mailman (because Mailman's cgi-bin/create wrapper is group mailman and SETGID and the mailman group should be able to read and write /etc/mailman/aliases, /etc/mailman/aliases.db, /etc/mailman/virtual-mailman and /etc/mailman/virtual-mailman.db. If the permissions are OK, it is probably a SELinux issue. -- 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 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
