mailman web access to archives failure:

[Greg Larkin]

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David Southwell wrote:
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>> Hi David,
>>
>> This directory has a problem if mailman runs its scripts with uid/gid of
>> www/www:
>>
>> drwxrws---  10 mailman  mailman  512 Dec 28 15:45
>> /usr/local/mailman/archives/private
>>
>> "Other" users (including www) are prevented from entering that directory.
>>
>> Have you tried running the check_perms scripts from the mailman package?
>>  That may help you determine where the problem is.  More information can
>> be found here, along with some specific info about the permissions for
>> the private directory: http://bit.ly/7Ht0rS
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>> Greg
>>
> Yes I did run the perms script - but that was before I made the changes to 
> httpd.conf . I have just rerun check_perms and all is now working!!!
> 
> You guys have been brilliant - it looks as though the problem was a 
> combination of errors in ownership of  mailman/archives, plus mal-configured 
> httpd.conf and my apache virtual configuration files. Once I got thtose 
> soirted out as a result of all the advice I received, the problem has gone 
> away.
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> David

Beautiful - glad to hear it!

Cheers,
Greg
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