Beyer, Clay >> >>IOErro: [Errno 13] Permission denied: >>'/var/lib/mailman/locks/gate_news.lock.NKADDWEB.4363.0'
>Presumably this is from the emailed output of cron/gate_news which runs >every 5 minutes and mails you this message. >Was there a traceback. It would say exactly what was being attempted >that there was not permission for. >The problem is the user the cron runs as does not have permission to >create the file or create a hard link to it. >This could be permissions or SELinux or some other security policy >manager. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 284, in <module> main() File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 259, in main lock.lock(timeout=0.5) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 243, in lock self.__write() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 422, in __write fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w') IOError: [Error 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/locks/gate_news.lock.NKADDWEB.4363.0' That is the traceback. >Some additional info... > >/var/lib/mailman/locks is a symlink to /var/lock/mailman which has >uid:gid of root:lists >and are the permissions on /var/lock/mailman drwxrwsr-w check_perms may >have trouble because it gets confused by symlinks, but presumably >they're OK or Mailman would be completely broken. >So I'm guessing it's the cron user or a security policy manager. The permissions of /var/lock/mailman are as you stated. How do I make the cron user (im too much of a newbie for this to be a policy manager ;)) able to write to the directory, I'm not very fluent messing with users, yet... Thanks, ClayB -- 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 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
