On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:48 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org>wrote:
> David writes: > > > apparently I missed something. The problem was simply permissions -- the > > well-known Ubuntu issue. > > Not just Ubuntu. I believe pretty much every system that Mailman runs > on runs into these issues every once in a while. > > It's important to run bin/check_perms every time you upgrade, and > check the output carefully (IIRC setup.py runs it automatically, so > the important part is checking the output). If it's not 100% clean, > then run "bin/check_perms -f". Sometimes multiple runs are > necessary. > How would you recommend addressing this? root@localhost:/var/lib/mailman# bin/check_perms -f /var/lib/mailman/Mailman bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/logs bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/bin bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/icons bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/locks bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/scripts bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/cron bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/cgi-bin bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/mail bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/templates bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/list/2012-April/index.html bad group (has: www-data, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/list/2012-May/index.html bad group (has: www-data, expected list) (fixing) Problems found: 12 Re-run as list (or root) with -f flag to fix Re-running it does not change the results. I believe each item in the output is a symlink. I checked a few: # ls -la /var/lib/mailman/Mailman lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2012-04-17 23:16 /var/lib/mailman/Mailman -> /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman # ls -la /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman total 824 drwxr-xr-x 11 root list 4096 2012-05-01 14:37 . ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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