On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Scott Spence wrote: > > > This INSTALL file *MUST* be wrong - surely?? > > They are misleading...
i.e. Misname a feature of the ./configure utility? - very misleading! ;-) > > > > Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/logs/error' > > > > I go though changing these permissions and get the same problem (ie > > basically SGID is not working..).....I think it must have 'defaults' set not JUST >'rw' > > FYI, _all_ of my servers running mailman have 'defaults' set in > fstab. As I said before, your fstab (theoretically) has nothing to do > with it. The 'defaults' setting in fstab sets the following options: > rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser, and async > yes, that is why I think defaults is likely to be a better option than rw If I change it i think I have to reboot (or re-mount) for it to take effect - right? > One thing I forgot to ask you before... When you configured, made > and ran make install, what user were you logged in as? i made it as myself- not root (I see what you are getting at) - I made sure I (as a normal user) had write access to the directory. Somthing interesting I did was copy the apache binary and create a differnet conf file on the non rw mounted partition - no change - perhaps it is because python is running from there also.. :-( Scott > > -- > H | "Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." - John Gardner > +-------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . 303.442.6410 x130 > Director of Internet Operations / SysAdmin . 800.441.3873 x130 > Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc. . 3550 Arapahoe Ave, #6 > http://www.pcraft.com ..... . . . Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A. > > > Scott Mobile: +34 65 337 8573 Fiona Mobile: +34 65 337 8574 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users