on 10/9/02 11:03 AM, Jon Carnes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: > Just to remove any thought of rights issues, how about setting the > rights to that file so that it is read/writable to all. > > The current rights should look like this: > -rw-rw-r-- mailman mailman
They do now. But they didn't. They were... -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 1377 Oct 8 23:47 request.db ...which I take to be a problem. I changed them to mailman.mailman group read and write and the error messages went away. These are lists that were created and/or modified during my ill-fated flirtation with the rpm version of mailman. I tarred them to another directory, uninstalled the rpm version, deleted the residual directories, and copied the lists back after I had reinstalled mailman from the source distribution. I assume that somewhere along that tortured path I or RedHat's rpm messed up the permissions. > To set the file so that it is world writable: > chmod a+w request.db Maybe I don't need to do that? > What OS are you using? Are you on a BSD system? No. It's RedHat Linux 7.0. > Check /etc/passwd and make sure that the UID for mailman is unique. It is. > Check /etc/group and make sure that the GID for mailman is unique. It is. cmkl -- Chris Lawson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jungle.ca Ottawa Ontario ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
