I guess things are getting better with my new mailman implementation, as I received nine messages overnight I've never gotten before. four are Errno 13 permission denied, five only contain one line:
/bin/sh: mailman: command not found The subject fields of these five all begin with the same text telling me they're from Mailman at my node, etc. The rest of the subject field for each message was this: /usr/lib/mailman/cron/cull_bad_shunt /usr/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs /usr/lib/mailman/cron/disabled /usr/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests /usr/lib/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip Here are the four Errno13 messages: Subject: Cron <mailman@{mynode}> /usr/lib/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip From: "(Cron Daemon)" <mailman@{mydomain.com}> Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2015 03:27:02 +0000 (UTC) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip", line 158, in <module> main() File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip", line 114, in main mlist = MailList.MailList(name, lock=0) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 130, in __init__ self.Load() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 655, in Load dict, e = self.__load(file) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 620, in __load fp = open(dbfile) IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck' Subject: Cron <mailman@{mynode}> /usr/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs From: "(Cron Daemon)" <mailman@{mydomain.com}> Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2015 08:00:02 +0000 (UTC) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 211, in <module> main() File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 87, in main mlist = MailList.MailList(name) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 128, in __init__ self.Lock() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 161, in Lock self.__lock.lock(timeout) 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: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lock/mailman/mailman.lock.{mynode}.Mydomain.com}.3681.0' Subject: Cron <mailman@{mynode}> /usr/lib/mailman/cron/disabled From: "(Cron Daemon)" <mailman@{mydomain.com}> Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2015 09:00:02 +0000 (UTC) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/disabled", line 227, in <module> main() File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/disabled", line 150, in main mlist = MailList.MailList(listname) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 128, in __init__ self.Lock() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 161, in Lock self.__lock.lock(timeout) 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: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lock/mailman/mailman.lock.{mynode}.{mydomain.com}.4471.0' Subject: Cron <mailman@{mynode}> /usr/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests From: "(Cron Daemon)" <mailman@{mydomain.com}> Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2015 12:00:02 +0000 (UTC) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 106, in <module> main() File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 84, in main mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 130, in __init__ self.Load() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 655, in Load dict, e = self.__load(file) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 620, in __load fp = open(dbfile) IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck' Thinking a run of check_perms might help, I did so and got (then fixed) this one error, which I reran with -f to fix: /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.pyc bad group (has: root, expected mailman) (fixing) Not wanting to overload the list with diagnostics, hope this is sufficient to start. More info on request of course. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://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: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org