Well, I rmlist'd the list and tried again with the new aliases db line in my main.cf for postfix. No dice. However, I did encounter an error page that might help. What happens is I enter the info on the create list page. When I submit, I get a popup asking what user's password I'm trying to change, so I select <>. Next page is an error (below). If I again try the process, I'm told the list exists already (an error page indicates as much). FWIW, I also double-checked and I cannot get mail at mail.nekophile.com in general (same error).
That error page: Bug in Mailman version 2.1.2 We're sorry, we hit a bug! If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what happened. Thanks! Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 55, in main process_request(doc, cgidata) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 217, in process_request sys.modules[modname].create(mlist, cgi=1) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 232, in create _update_maps() File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 53, in _update_maps raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr) RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias /var/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted) Python information: Variable Value sys.version 2.2.3 (#1, Oct 15 2003, 23:33:35) [GCC 3.3.1 20030930 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.1-6)] sys.executable /usr/bin/python sys.prefix /usr sys.exec_prefix /usr sys.path /usr sys.platform linux2 Environment variables: Variable Value CONTENT_LENGTH 137 CONTENT_TYPE application/x-www-form-urlencoded HTTP_REFERER http://www.nekophile.com/mailman/create SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/mailman/cgi-bin/create PYTHONPATH /var/mailman SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/2.0.47 (Fedora) SERVER_ADMIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/create SERVER_SIGNATURE Apache/2.0.47 (Fedora) Server at www.nekophile.com Port 80 REQUEST_METHOD POST HTTP_HOST www.nekophile.com HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE 300 SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1 QUERY_STRING REQUEST_URI /mailman/create HTTP_ACCEPT text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,*/*;q=0.1 HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7 HTTP_CONNECTION keep-alive SERVER_NAME www.nekophile.com REMOTE_ADDR 64.81.73.79 REMOTE_PORT 47143 HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en-us,en;q=0.5 UNIQUE_ID 9-h09n8AAAEAAGOFDNwAAAAI SERVER_PORT 80 GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1 HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip,deflate SERVER_ADDR 64.81.73.79 DOCUMENT_ROOT /var/www/html --- The file perms: /var/mailman/data [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ ls -la total 64 drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Nov 29 17:20 . drwxrwsr-x 19 root mailman 4096 Nov 20 12:56 .. -rw-rw---- 1 root mailman 4278 Nov 29 17:20 aliases -rw-r----- 1 mailman mailman 12288 Nov 29 17:20 aliases.db Thank you again! Phil ------------------------------------------------------ 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org