I recently upgraded from Postfix 1 to Postfix 2 and suddenly I lost my ability to create new lists. (This may also be related to a question about virtual domains that I just posted.)

Of course, I upgraded as root--using an RPM on RedHat 8. Would that have messed with my permissions?

When I try to create a list, I get the following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main
main()
File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 55, in main
process_request(doc, cgidata)
File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 217, in process_request
sys.modules[modname].create(mlist, cgi=1)
File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 226, in create
_update_maps()
File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 47, in _update_maps
raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr)
RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted)


I checked my permissions and they read:

-rw-rw----    1 mailman  mailman      5804 Feb 25 22:03 aliases
-rw-r--r--    1 mailman  mailman     12288 Feb 22 10:20 aliases.db

/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases has been changed and new aliases added, but aliases.db was not updated.

Thanks for the assistance.


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