Actually it does present a problem because this is the error it generates: May 08 18:26:01 2001 qrunner(7593): Traceback (most recent call last): May 08 18:26:01 2001 qrunner(7593): File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 278, in ? May 08 18:26:01 2001 qrunner(7593): kids = main(lock) May 08 18:26:01 2001 qrunner(7593): File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 234, in main May 08 18:26:01 2001 qrunner(7593): mlist = open_list(listname) May 08 18:26:01 2001 qrunner(7593): File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 174, in open_list May 08 18:26:01 2001 qrunner(7593): mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0) May 08 18:26:01 2001 qrunner(7593): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 79, in __init__ May 08 18:26:01 2001 qrunner(7593): self.Load() May 08 18:26:01 2001 qrunner(7593): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 877, in Load May 08 18:26:01 2001 qrunner(7593): dict, e = self.__load(dbfile) May 08 18:26:01 2001 qrunner(7593): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 854, in __load May 08 18:26:01 2001 qrunner(7593): fp = open(dbfile) May 08 18:26:01 2001 qrunner(7593): IOError : [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/mailman/lists/thelist/config.db' and this is the setup of the file itself: [root@unica logs]# ls -l '/home/mailman/lists/thelist/config.db' -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mail 16875 May 8 18:16 /home/mailman/lists/thelist/config.db Ideas? <EOL> Tib On Tue, 8 May 2001, Dan Mick wrote: > > > For some reason, the config.db file of the list previously in question keeps > > being set to an ownership of 'nobody'. help? > > The web server writes it. This is not a problem, because it's owned > by group mailman, and write permissions are granted to group mailman. > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users