Hello Mark, As you mentioned, I was able to delete a mailing list changing the permission of /etc/mailman as follows.
# ls -l /etc/ | grep mailman drwxrwsr-x. 3 root mailman 129 Sep 13 10:39 mailman Thanks a million! Masaharu On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 11:43 AM Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> wrote: > Please keep this thread on the list. > > On 9/21/21 6:36 PM, Masaharu Kawada wrote: > > Hello Mark, > > > > Thanks again for your help. > > > > >What does `ls -la` on Mailman's data/ directory show and what is the > > >content of Mailman's data/aliases file? > > > > The /var/lib/mailman/data only shows the following file. > > > > ]# ls -l /var/lib/mailman/data > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root mailman 25 Sep 30 2020 sitelist.cfg -> > > /etc/mailman/sitelist.cfg > > > > As for the aliases, please take a look at below results. > > > > ]# ls -l /etc/mailman/aliases > > -rw-rw-rw- 1 root mailman 2840 Sep 21 12:41 /etc/mailman/aliases > > > Not the issue, but this probably shouldn't be other writable. > > > > ]# cat /etc/mailman/aliases > > > > ~~~~~ > > # The ultimate loop stopper address > > mailman-loop: /var/lib/mailman/data/owner-bounces.mbox > ... > > > > > If this is a RHEL mailman package, please see > <https://wiki.list.org/x/12812344> > > > As far as I know, in the RHEL package, Mailman's aliases are in > /etc/mailman/ as you show. > > I think the problem may be that the `mailman` group does not have write > permission on /etc/mailman/. Permissions should be `drwxrwsr-x` and > group mailman. > > Try running Mailman's bin/check_perms to check and `bin/check_perms -f` > as root to fix errors, but don't worry about symlinks. > > > -- > 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 To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/
