On Dec 11, 2005, at 8:46 AM, Peter Seibel wrote: > I'm trying to install Mailman on a GNU/Linux box with Postfix. > Following the instructions in the installation manual a chown'd data/ > aliases* to mailman:mailman. However when I try to create a group > from the web interface I get an error because postalias can't write > data/aliases.db. I got it to work by changing the ownership to > nobody:nobody (since the webserver run's as nobody) but that doesn't > seem right. What am I doing wrong here?
Hmmm, it seems that chmod'ing data/aliases.db to 0660 does the trick-- now I can create lists both from the command line as a member of the mailman group and from the web. Is that the correct fix? -Peter -- Peter Seibel * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gigamonkeys Consulting * http://www.gigamonkeys.com/ Practical Common Lisp * http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ ------------------------------------------------------ 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
