Adam Roberts wrote: > >I have recently installed and configured (or so it would appear) Mailman >2.1.9 on top of Postfix 2.5 and Ubuntu 8.04. I am up and running with my >first mailing list but I'm getting an error in my log file that continues to >baffle me. Granted, it may be something simple, but I'm rather confused and >am turning to the collective wisdom of the Interwebs for answers. > >A `tail` from my log file (/var/log/mail.log): > >Feb 15 21:18:52 PyHost01 postfix/qmgr[15994]: 7C4586E0B8: from=< >[email protected]>, size=628, nrcpt=1 (queue active) >Feb 15 21:18:52 PyHost01 postfix/local[27805]: 7EC056DF47: to=< >[email protected]>, orig_to=<mailman>, relay=local, delay=1130, >delays=1130/0.01/0/0.04, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. >Command output: local: fatal: execvp /var/lib/mailman/mail: Permission >denied ) > Feb 15 21:18:52 PyHost01 local[27831]: fatal: execvp /var/lib/mailman/mail: >Permission denied >Feb 15 21:18:52 PyHost01 postfix/qmgr[15994]: 756866E0E2: from=< >[email protected]>, size=628, nrcpt=1 (queue active) >Feb 15 21:18:52 PyHost01 local[27832]: fatal: execvp /var/lib/mailman/mail: >Permission denied >Feb 15 21:18:52 PyHost01 postfix/local[27812]: 7C4586E0B8: to=< >[email protected]>, orig_to=<mailman>, relay=local, delay=10131, >delays=10131/0.02/0/0.04, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred >(temporary failure. Command output: local: fatal: execvp >/var/lib/mailman/mail: Permission denied ) >Feb 15 21:20:01 PyHost01 postfix/pickup[24405]: 58EE46E0E9: uid=1002 >from=<mailman> Feb 15 21:20:01 PyHost01 postfix/cleanup[27841]: 58EE46E0E9: >message-id=<[email protected]> >Feb 15 21:20:01 PyHost01 postfix/qmgr[15994]: 58EE46E0E9: from=< >[email protected]>, size=628, nrcpt=1 (queue active) >Feb 15 21:20:01 PyHost01 local[27844]: fatal: execvp /var/lib/mailman/mail: >Permission denied > > >and from my error log (/var/log/mail.err): > >Feb 15 21:18:52 PyHost01 local[27831]: fatal: execvp /var/lib/mailman/mail: >Permission denied >Feb 15 21:18:52 PyHost01 local[27832]: fatal: execvp /var/lib/mailman/mail: >Permission denied >Feb 15 21:18:52 PyHost01 local[27833]: fatal: execvp/var/lib/mailman/mail: >Permission denied >Feb 15 21:20:01 PyHost01 local[27844]: fatal: execvp/var/lib/mailman/mail: >Permission denied > > >The above error messages repeat themselves with great frequency. They don't >appear to be having an affect on operations as I can send and receive mail >and my mailing lists are working.
Where are your Mailman aliases? They may be in Mailman's data/ directory if you have Mailman-Postfix integration or they may have been manually added in /etc/aliases. Either way, what is the ownership of the corresponding aliases.db file, and what is the ownership and permissions on /var/lib/mailman/, /var/lib/mailman/mail and /var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman (they should all be group mailman, SETGID and owner, group and world readable and executable/searchable). Also note that if you have Mailman aliases in both places (data/aliases and /etc/aliases), this is wrong. If Mailman-Postfix integration is putting aliases in data/aliases, there should be no Mailman aliases in /etc/aliases. Also, do these errors affect only mail to [email protected], or are other lists affected too? If it's only [email protected], perhaps you have aliases for the mailman list only in /etc/aliases and/or they are wrong. E.g. mailman: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail post mailman" etc. instead of mailman: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman" -- Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
