I am sending this to the list mostly for the archives so that others who have the same problem will not have to search as long as I did for the solution. I also want to thank Richard for helping me by pointing me in the right direction so that I could "logic" out the rest.
This is on a basic server intallation using Debian, Exim, Apache and Mailman The first problem that I was having was an authentication problem caused by a cron job. Nov 27 22:03:01 livingsky CRON[23330]: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info. This was resolved by updating the shadow passwords file /etc/shadow to make sure that the user "mailman" was listed in that file. The command I used to do this was "pwconv" at the promtp as root. This allowed me to update the shadow file without deleting and re-creating the user "mailman". Immediately after this, I started to get another permission problem > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 222, in ? > main() > File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 198, in main > lock.lock(timeout=0.5) > File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 219, in lock > self.__write() > File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 350, in __write > fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w') > IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: > '/usr/lib/mailman/locks/gate_news.lock.fish.13366' Which, after some research through Google, I figured out that I had to update the cron jobs and thus had to run "crontab -u mailman crontab.in" in the /usr/lib/mailman/cron/ directory. Hope this helps if anyone else has these same problems. Robert Lydiate [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------ 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/ This message was sent to: archive@jab.org Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
