Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission Denied Error after List Migration

Mark, many thanks for your detailed explanation! After Stephen's hint to use check_perms, I performed the migration on a second list, and it went through fine. :-) Kind regards, Sascha. 2014-08-09 2:56 GMT+02:00 Mark Sapiro : > On 08/06/2014 01:39 PM, Sascha Rissel wrote: > > Thanks, in fact I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission Denied Error after List Migration

On 08/06/2014 01:39 PM, Sascha Rissel wrote: > Thanks, in fact I didn't think of that! > > Meanwhile I created the list on the target server anew, using "newlist" > command. > Afterwards I exported members and config from the old server and imported > it into the new server's list: >> list_members

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission Denied Error after List Migration

Many thanks, Stephen! 2014-08-07 8:43 GMT+02:00 Stephen J. Turnbull : > Sascha Rissel writes: > > > Thanks, in fact I didn't think of that! > > > > Meanwhile I created the list on the target server anew, using "newlist" > > command. > > Afterwards I exported members and config from the old

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission Denied Error after List Migration

Sascha Rissel writes: > Thanks, in fact I didn't think of that! > > Meanwhile I created the list on the target server anew, using "newlist" > command. > Afterwards I exported members and config from the old server and imported > it into the new server's list: > > list_members -o regular.ls

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission Denied Error after List Migration

Thanks, in fact I didn't think of that! Meanwhile I created the list on the target server anew, using "newlist" command. Afterwards I exported members and config from the old server and imported it into the new server's list: > list_members -o regular.lst -r > list_members -o digest.lst -d > con

[Mailman-Users] Permission Denied Error after List Migration

Sascha Rissel writes: > (N.B: All file permissions are set according to my previous server's, but I > also tried: "chown -R list.list /var/lib/mailman/lists/"" Try running the bin/check_perms script (or maybe it's checkperms). The wrapper scripts may have a different idea from you about file ow

[Mailman-Users] Permission Denied Error after List Migration

Hello, I just tried migrating a list from an old to a new server. Basically I copied /var/lib/mailman/lists/ and copied the private archive as well. Afterwards I - regenerated the archives using "/var/lib/mailman/bin/arch [listname]" and - fixed the urls with ""withlist -l -r fix_url [listname]""

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission Denied errors

Beyer, Clay wrote: > >The mailman user belongs only to the group daemon And therefor can't successfully run Mailman's cron jobs because they need to be run in the 'list' group. >The contents of both files... > >/etc/cron.d/mailman ># At 8AM every day, mail reminders to admins as to pending requ

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission Denied errors

> -Original Message- > From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:m...@msapiro.net] > Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 4:57 PM > To: Beyer, Clay; mailman-users@python.org > Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Permission Denied errors > > Beyer, Claywrote: > > >-rw--- 1 ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission Denied errors

Beyer, Claywrote: >-rw--- 1 mailman crontab /var/spool/cron/crontabs/mailman >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root /etc/cron.d/maiman > >Those are the two places you mentioned. So I'm just guessing, but I suspect that the crontab in /etc/cron.d/mailman (?) is correct and is running successfully and the o

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission Denied errors

-rw--- 1 mailman crontab /var/spool/cron/crontabs/mailman -rw-r--r-- 1 root root /etc/cron.d/maiman Those are the two places you mentioned. Thanks, ClayB Beyer, Clay wrote: > >How do I make the cron user (im too much of a newbie for this to be a >policy manager ;)) able to write to the dir

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission Denied errors

Beyer, Clay wrote: > >How do I make the cron user (im too much of a newbie for this to be a >policy manager ;)) able to write to the directory, I'm not very fluent >messing with users, yet... Mailman's crontab should be installed so it either belongs to the mailman user (which I think is 'list' i

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission Denied errors

Beyer, Clay >> >>IOErro: [Errno 13] Permission denied: >>'/var/lib/mailman/locks/gate_news.lock.NKADDWEB.4363.0' >Presumably this is from the emailed output of cron/gate_news which runs >every 5 minutes and mails you this message. >Was there a traceback. It would say exactly what was being attem

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission Denied errors

Beyer, Clay > >IOErro: [Errno 13] Permission denied: >'/var/lib/mailman/locks/gate_news.lock.NKADDWEB.4363.0' Presumably this is from the emailed output of cron/gate_news which runs every 5 minutes and mails you this message. Was there a traceback. It would say exactly what was being attempted t

[Mailman-Users] Permission Denied errors

Hello Everyone, I am getting some permission denied errors that is causing about 2000 messages to appear in my mailbox, not sure what is going on. My check_perms seems to run fine and fix all permissions, so looking for any additional help. The error: IOErro: [Errno 13] Permission denied:

Re: [Mailman-Users] permission denied error

LuKreme wrote: >On 23-Jul-2009, at 22:12, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> >> My 23-Jul-2009, at 16:58 (-0600) post (and this one too) was sent to >> the list only. The post archived at the above link was addressed to >> you and to the list. The copy to you was accepted by your MX >> (mail.covisp.net). Perha

Re: [Mailman-Users] permission denied error

On 23-Jul-2009, at 22:12, Mark Sapiro wrote: LuKreme wrote: On 23-Jul-2009, at 16:58, Mark Sapiro wrote: LuKreme wrote: No one has any solutions? See my reply at and provide the information I ask for, and we might be

Re: [Mailman-Users] permission denied error

LuKreme wrote: >On 23-Jul-2009, at 16:58, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> LuKreme wrote: >>> >>> No one has any solutions? >> >> See my reply at >> >> and provide the information I ask for, and we might be able to help. > >Sorry, I neve

Re: [Mailman-Users] permission denied error

On 23-Jul-2009, at 16:58, Mark Sapiro wrote: LuKreme wrote: No one has any solutions? See my reply at and provide the information I ask for, and we might be able to help. Sorry, I never saw that post, it's not in my mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] permission denied error

LuKreme wrote: > >No one has any solutions? See my reply at and provide the information I ask for, and we might be able to help. -- Mark Sapiro The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Californiabett

Re: [Mailman-Users] permission denied error

On Jul 22, 2009, at 8:02, LuKreme wrote: IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman/lists/ mailman/config.pck' all the config.pck files have the same permissions though: 10 -rw-rw 1 mailman mailman 8556 Jul 21 12:00 list1/config.pck 8 -rw-rw 1 mailman mailman 78

Re: [Mailman-Users] permission denied error

LuKreme wrote: >IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman/lists/ >mailman/config.pck' > >all the config.pck files have the same permissions though: What process encountered this error? If there was a traceback, what was it? Were you running a command line script as a non-root u

[Mailman-Users] permission denied error

IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman/lists/ mailman/config.pck' all the config.pck files have the same permissions though: 10 -rw-rw 1 mailman mailman 8556 Jul 21 12:00 list1/config.pck 8 -rw-rw 1 mailman mailman 7825 Mar 11 12:00 list1/ config.pck.corrupt

Re: [Mailman-Users] permission denied error on sending mails to mailinglist

dylan lim wrote: > >Mayb this will make it clearer. Postfix is installed using yum install >postfix. >While mailman is compiled from source with the following options: > >./configure --with-mail-gid=postfix --with-cgi-gid=apache The --with-mail-gid=postfix doesn't come into play yet, because you

Re: [Mailman-Users] permission denied error on sending mails to mailinglist

Mayb this will make it clearer. Postfix is installed using yum install postfix. While mailman is compiled from source with the following options: ./configure --with-mail-gid=postfix --with-cgi-gid=apache However, I keep encountering errors where postfix is unable to execute the wrapper for /usr/l

Re: [Mailman-Users] permission denied error on sending mails to mailinglist

dylan lim wrote: > >This is what I have done: > >I cd into my /usr/local/mailman directory. >Did a > >chown mailman.mailman scripts >chown mailman.mailman /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman >chmod 2755 scripts Actually, the scripts directory should be 2775. The wrappers that should be 2755 are /usr/

Re: [Mailman-Users] permission denied error on sending mails to mailinglist

This is what I have done: I cd into my /usr/local/mailman directory. Did a chown mailman.mailman scripts chown mailman.mailman /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman chmod 2755 scripts chmod 2755 /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman But I still got the same error. On 1/4/06, Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Mailman-Users] permission denied error on sending mails to mailinglist

dylan lim wrote: > >I have set up Postfix+Mailman+htdig on a box and upon sending mails to the >mailing list I have encountered an error of > >fatal: execvp /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman: Permission denied > >in my maillog. On my email client, I received a notification that >/usr/local/mailman/ma

[Mailman-Users] permission denied error on sending mails to mailing list

Hi all, I have set up Postfix+Mailman+htdig on a box and upon sending mails to the mailing list I have encountered an error of fatal: execvp /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman: Permission denied in my maillog. On my email client, I received a notification that /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post h

RE: [Mailman-Users] Permission denied

[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Poltorak Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 7:40 AM To: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission denied On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 01:10:38PM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 11:44 AM + 2005-01-18, John Poltorak wrote: > >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission denied

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 01:10:38PM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 11:44 AM + 2005-01-18, John Poltorak wrote: > > > Jan 18 11:35:20 2005 qrunner(10393): OSError : [Errno 13] Permission > > denied: > > > >'/usr/local/mailman/qfiles/virgin/1106041778.22+6270e8743606d6150c4dd1d6abbb5b7514ed4

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission denied

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 03:09:55PM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 1:55 PM + 2005-01-18, John Poltorak wrote: > > > It won't be anything to do with file ownership, because the concept does > > not exist on the platform I'm using. It probably means that some other > > process is using the fi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission denied

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brad Knowles wrote: | At 1:55 PM + 2005-01-18, John Poltorak wrote: |> Well I guess I need to dip my toes in the water regarding Python at some |> time... How do I put a pause in the program at this point? I don't even |> know how to code a 'prin

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission denied

At 1:55 PM + 2005-01-18, John Poltorak wrote: It won't be anything to do with file ownership, because the concept does not exist on the platform I'm using. It probably means that some other process is using the file at the time... Uh, so what platform are you using? Well I guess I need

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission denied

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 01:10:38PM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 11:44 AM + 2005-01-18, John Poltorak wrote: > > So, errno=13 is definitely being passed up by the OS to Mailman, > which is correctly interpreting this to mean that some > file/filesystem permission was denied to it. >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission denied

At 11:44 AM + 2005-01-18, John Poltorak wrote: Jan 18 11:35:20 2005 qrunner(10393): OSError : [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman/qfiles/virgin/1106041778.22+6270e8743606d6150c4dd1d6abbb5b7514ed40ce.pck' Is the Errno 13 something which is received from the OS? Looking in

[Mailman-Users] Permission denied

After running newlist I get a queued file waiting to get sent out to the list owner, which I believe is released by running 'qrunner virgin', but I get this:- Jan 18 11:35:20 2005 qrunner(10393): Traceback (most recent call last): Jan 18 11:35:20 2005 qrunner(10393): File "qrunner", line 270,

Re: [Mailman-Users] permission denied on archive

On 26 Nov 2003, at 19:21, Richard Barrett wrote: On 26 Nov 2003, at 17:25, Brian Craft wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 08:21:53AM +0100, Sasa Stupar wrote: Brian Craft wrote: I just went through the INSTALL doc and set up the /pipermail/ alias. The archive links now give me a permission denied

Re: [Mailman-Users] permission denied on archive

On 26 Nov 2003, at 17:25, Brian Craft wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 08:21:53AM +0100, Sasa Stupar wrote: Brian Craft wrote: I just went through the INSTALL doc and set up the /pipermail/ alias. The archive links now give me a permission denied error. The permissions on the directories are as s

Re: [Mailman-Users] permission denied on archive

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:34:12AM -0600, Dan Phillips wrote: > > On Nov 26, 2003, at 11:25 AM, Brian Craft wrote: > >It reports no problems, but I still get "permission denied" on the > >archive > >from apache. > > > > "Aha!" he said. This is an Apache error, as in "indexing not allowed?" > Ar

Re: [Mailman-Users] permission denied on archive

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 08:21:53AM +0100, Sasa Stupar wrote: > Brian Craft wrote: > > >I just went through the INSTALL doc and set up the /pipermail/ alias. > >The archive links now give me a permission denied error. > > > >The permissions on the directories are as shown: > > > >drwxrws---6

[Mailman-Users] permission denied on archive

I just went through the INSTALL doc and set up the /pipermail/ alias. The archive links now give me a permission denied error. The permissions on the directories are as shown: drwxrws---6 root list 4096 Nov 25 18:05 private drwxrwsr-x2 root list 4096 Nov 25 18:05 p

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission Denied / Content Filtering

On Nov 5, 2003, at 10:00 AM, Timothy Brooks wrote: I've had a very hard time with my lists ever since my provider upgraded to 2.1.2. The most recent problem is that messages sent via Hotmail (and some other Web-based mail programs) come through like this: /root/HJBt9Y: Permission denied see h

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission Denied / Content Filtering

On Wednesday, November 5, 2003, at 04:00 pm, Timothy Brooks wrote: I've had a very hard time with my lists ever since my provider upgraded to 2.1.2. The most recent problem is that messages sent via Hotmail (and some other Web-based mail programs) come through like this: /root/HJBt9Y: Permis

[Mailman-Users] Permission Denied / Content Filtering

I've had a very hard time with my lists ever since my provider upgraded to 2.1.2. The most recent problem is that messages sent via Hotmail (and some other Web-based mail programs) come through like this: /root/HJBt9Y: Permission denied This only happens with Content Filtering turned on. My c

[Mailman-Users] Permission denied errors?

Hello. After install mailman 2.0.10 on FreeBSD 4.4, I keep getting these errors from mailman's cron job: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 276, in ? lock.lock(timeout=0.5) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 219, in lock self._

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission denied:'/home/mailman/lists/test/config.db'

> Now, the install directions say: > > - Add a new user called `mailman'. Typically this is added to > your /etc/passwd file. If username `mailman' is already in use, > choose something else unique and see the --with-ownername flag > below. > > - Add a new group cal

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission denied: '/home/mailman/lists/test/config.db'

At 12:48 PM 11/25/01 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: I'm posting this for the sake of the archive. And please correct me if anything is wrong here. >File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner >IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/mailman/lists/test/config.db' Here's the problem, I think. My mistake

[Mailman-Users] Permission denied: '/home/mailman/lists/test/config.db'

Hi, Trying hard to figure this out myself :-( I was able to find a number of posts with this same problem, but no solutions. I wonder if I don't understand sguid very well. mailman 2.0.7, python 1.5.2. Sendmail 8.10.1 Linux mardy 2.2.13 #1 Mon Nov 8 15:51:29 CET 1999 i686 unknown (ya, time fo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission Denied

> "RJS" == Robert J Shepherd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RJS> Sorry ... I should add that the error isn't just for the RJS> senddigests cron. Here's two others, which suggest the error RJS> happens with every (or nearly every) use of config.db:- Are the errors only happening wi

[Mailman-Users] Permission Denied

Sorry ... I should add that the error isn't just for the senddigests cron. Here's two others, which suggest the error happens with every (or nearly every) use of config.db:- --- Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip", line 146, in ?