Mark, Thanks very much for continuing to try to help..
> >I tried explicitly forcing permissions with 'chmod 777 > >config.pck', and that made the Admin page work. So, the > >"660" permissions are the problem, not the owner/group. > >This seems to be a widespread issue with Mailman under Cygwin - > >permission don't behave as under Unix, so Mailman chokes easily. > Here's how you can make it work. > From your previous posts, I think your web server runs in the > Administrators group. What are you running as a mail server? > I use Exim under Cygwin and that works well and integrates > well with Mailman. I run exim too, and it works fine. Getting mailman to talk to exim is a step I haven't even gotten to yet, so far I am just trying to get Mailman to create a list. > you need to make your > mailman user a member of the Administrators group, not mm, > and reconfigure Mailman with --with-groupname, --with-cgi-gid > and --with-mail-gid all equal to Administrators. Then > reinstall with 'make install' and run 'bin/check_perms -f' to > make sure things are OK. I have tried this. However, I get the exact same error as before: admin(704): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 591, in __load admin(704): fp = open(dbfile) admin(704): IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman/lists/friends/config.pck' I have attached the whole error log in case it helps. The "config.pck" file exists, and it has 660 permissions: -rw-rw---- 1 Ben None 3607 Dec 22 12:10 config.pck As before, it is the 660 permission bits, not the owner/group, which is causing Mailman to choke. I can't understand why Mailman's 'newlist' uses this permission mask to create files which Mailman will subsequently refuse to read. Any other ideas? Thanks, Ben
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