Mark Sapiro wrote:
That is how my permissions are set, but apparently it did not like having the owner of the directory as root. So when the sticky bit is set on a directory that means only the owner of the file and directory may remove the file. The owner was mailman, the owner of the directory was root, and the sticky bit was set on the group. I guess this mixture worked to prevent the mailman user from deleting the file.I think that was the problem, the directory owner. A digest went out at noon and I no longer see the digest file in the list directory anymore. We'll see what happens tomorrow.
If it succeeded in deleting the digest.mbox, you should be OK. I wonder about changing the owner though. If that fixed it, maybe other permissions are not right.
In my case the mailman/ and the mailman/lists directories are owned by root and the mailman/lists/<listname> directory is owned by www if the list is created via the web and by mailman if created by bin/newlist. All the directories have permissions drwxrwsr-x
I think if group has rws, who the owner is is not important.
Does this agree with what you see?
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After doing some testing this is what I have noticed.
Since the mailman account does not have a password I cannot log in as the mailman account. The mailman account is not part of the mailman group (is this a problem?). If I create a test directory, with subdirectory and in that subdirectory put a file; then set the permission as so:
topdir: rwxrwsr-x mailman.mailman
subdir: rwxrwsr-x root.mailman
file: rwxrwsr-x mailman.mailmanand I su - mailman from root it let me view and edit the file, but I cannot delete the file. So, based upon me setting the wrong ownerships, mailman did what it was supposed to do but could not delete the digest file. That was my problem. Mailman was the owner of the file, but not the directory so it could not delete the file.
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