[NTLUG:Discuss] (Another) SuSE Mailman Failure

[Greg Edwards]

Stephen Davidson wrote:
>>
> tankjr:/var/lib/mailman/archives # chown mailman private public
> tankjr:/var/lib/mailman/archives # ls -l
> total 16
> drwxrwsr-x   4 root    mailman 4096 Nov 11 08:03 .
> drwxr-sr-x   9 mailman mailman 4096 Nov 11 08:03 ..
> drwxrws--x  10 mailman mailman 4096 Dec 17 16:08 private
> drwxrwsr-x   3 mailman mailman 4096 Dec 17 16:08 public
> <<< Ran test here, still no change. >>>
> tankjr:/var/lib/mailman/archives # ls -l private/
> total 40
> drwxrws--x  10 mailman mailman 4096 Dec 17 16:08 .
> drwxrwsr-x   4 root    mailman 4096 Nov 11 08:03 ..
> drwxrwsr-x  18 root    mailman 4096 Dec  7 20:46 j2ee
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root    mailman 4096 Dec  7 20:46 j2ee.mbox
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root    mailman 4096 Dec  7 20:37 mailman
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root    mailman 4096 Dec  7 20:37 mailman.mbox
> 
> tankjr:/var/lib/mailman/archives # chown -R mailman private public
> tankjr:/var/lib/mailman/archives # /etc/init.d/mailman restart
> Shutting down mailman                                                 done
> Starting mailman                                                      done
> tankjr:/var/lib/mailman/archives #
> 
> <<<Tried again.  Still no improvement. >>>
> 
> http://j2eeguys.com/mailman/listinfo/J2EE if you want to see the current
> web page effects.
> 
> If you guys have any other ideas, it would be greatly appreciated.
> 

> 
> Regards,
> Steve
> 

Steve,

You've still got group write permissions off on your archives dir.

As root run:

find /var/lib/mailman -type d -exec chmod u=rwx,g=rwxs "{}" ";"

This will open execute and write permissions on all dirs for mailman to 
the group with the sticky bit set.

What uid and gid was mailman configured with?

-- 
Greg Edwards
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