At 15:01 -0600 1/12/2003, David Gibbs wrote: >To add to the mystery, here's what the messages on the list contain after >they've been sent through the conversion ... > >/root/z0cZVZ: Permission denied > >Mailman is owned by mailman, so I really don't think that's an issue. And >the qrunner processes are running as 'mailman'.
If you become root using su - and then su - mailman, what happens? Output of whoami pwd ls -lad ~ It looks as if the moral equivalent of that su sequence is failing, leaving the process running as mailman but with /root as the current working directory OR as the directory referred to as ~. Since mailman can't write files into /root (on any sane system), bad things happen. --John -- John Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Port Ludlow, WA, USA ------------------------------------------------------ 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