mailman-2.1.7 apache 2.2.0 FreeBSD-4.11 Thanks again for all your help.
I never found anything in the intsallation manual as the check_perms message suggests. but what I did do was remove all other permissions and put the ownership of the private directory to www to solve the problem. check_perms works well now. # ls -l total 6 drwxrws--- 103 www mailman 2560 Apr 21 21:49 private drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 1536 Apr 21 21:49 public Maybe somebody with the mailman documents team could update their documents and/or make this type of information easier to find. cheers, Noah ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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