On Sunday 02 May 2004 12:08, frankieh wrote:
> Hi guys.
>
>
> I've a small problem I was wondering if anyone can help me out with..
>
> I've got mailman installed and working on my machine..
> I rebuilt a cooker RPM back before 9.1 had come out..
>
> Mailman seemed to be working great,  but recently I discovered that the
> user 'mail' on the system had a truely massive
> mail account.. and upon checking, it appears to be full of mailman cron
> errors..
> (permission denied messages for stuff in /var/lib/mailman/lists)
>
> Basically the lists in /var/lib/mailman/lists are having their
> permissions changed every night..
>
> They are supposed to be all owned by mail.nogroup but every night they
> get changed to apache. something..
> (can't remember now, and I've fixed them manually today so I can't check.)
>
> Anyway, I've been trying to find what nightly process is changing the
> permissions, and Ive been unable to do so.
> I assumed that it was msec, but I can't find any mention in any of the
> files for mailman.
>
> So,  two questions..
>
> - where in msec if anywhere, would it specify the permissions it is
> changing mailman list dirs to?
> - If its not Msec, maybe its one of mailmans own python scripts causing
> the problems, if so, where in mailmans config can I see what permissions
> it thinks its supposed to have?
>
> I've got a mdk10 offical box ready to take over from the old mdk9.0 box,
> but its gonna take ages go move everything across to the new machine as
> this box handles over 2000 mail a day for many domains and does spam and
> antivirus filtering as well..  so I'm hoping to fix this mailman prob so
> I don't have to rush the changeover.
>
> many thanks,
>
> Franki


msec will change the permissions to those in /usr/share/msec/perm.x
where x is the security level

You should not need to edit that file since you can create an override using 
drakperm. Drakperm will create a  /etc/security/msec/perm.local file for you.

It is all explained here http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php

derek
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