Mailman GID problem

[David Southwell]

On Friday 20 April 2007 09:38:03 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> chown -R nobody:mailman /usr/local/mailman/data

Here is what happens if I do that command:

[root at dns1 /usr/local/mailman/data]# ls -l
total 64
-rw-r-----  1 root     mailman     41 Apr 16 07:51 adm.pw
-rw-rw----  1 root     mailman   4364 Apr 20 06:39 aliases
-rw-rw----  1 mailman  mailman  16384 Apr 20 06:39 aliases.db
-rw-r-----  1 root     mailman     41 Apr 16 07:52 creator.pw
-rw-r--r--  1 root     mailman     10 Apr 20 07:11 last_mailman_version
-rw-rw----  1 mailman  mailman      5 Apr 20 02:49 master-qrunner.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 root     mailman  14114 Apr 20 07:11 sitelist.cfg
-rw-rw-r--  1 mailman  mailman      0 Apr 17 09:52 virtual-aliases
-rw-rw----  1 www      mailman   2275 Apr 20 06:39 virtual-mailman
-rw-rw-r--  1 mailman  mailman  16384 Apr 20 06:39 virtual-mailman.db
[root at dns1 /usr/local/mailman/data]# chown -R 
nobody:mailman /usr/local/mailman/data
[root at dns1 /usr/local/mailman/data]# ls -l
total 64
-rw-r-----  1 nobody  mailman     41 Apr 16 07:51 adm.pw
-rw-rw----  1 nobody  mailman   4364 Apr 20 06:39 aliases
-rw-rw----  1 nobody  mailman  16384 Apr 20 06:39 aliases.db
-rw-r-----  1 nobody  mailman     41 Apr 16 07:52 creator.pw
-rw-r--r--  1 nobody  mailman     10 Apr 20 07:11 last_mailman_version
-rw-rw----  1 nobody  mailman      5 Apr 20 02:49 master-qrunner.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 nobody  mailman  14114 Apr 20 07:11 sitelist.cfg
-rw-rw-r--  1 nobody  mailman      0 Apr 17 09:52 virtual-aliases
-rw-rw----  1 nobody  mailman   2275 Apr 20 06:39 virtual-mailman
-rw-rw-r--  1 nobody  mailman  16384 Apr 20 06:39 virtual-mailman.db
[root at dns1 /usr/local/mailman/data]# cd ..
[root at dns1 /usr/local/mailman]# ls -l
total 36
drwxrwsr-x  11 root    mailman  1536 Apr 20 07:11 Mailman
drwxrwsr-x   4 root    mailman   512 Apr 16 07:07 archives
drwxrwsr-x   2 root    mailman  1024 Apr 20 07:11 bin
drwxrwsr-x   2 root    mailman   512 Apr 20 07:11 cgi-bin
drwxrwsr-x   2 root    mailman   512 Apr 20 07:11 cron
drwxrwsr-x   2 nobody  mailman  2048 Apr 20 08:24 data
drwxrwsr-x   2 root    mailman   512 Apr 20 07:11 icons
drwxrwsr-x   7 root    mailman   512 Apr 20 06:39 lists
drwxrwsr-x   2 root    mailman   512 Apr 20 11:40 locks
drwxrwsr-x   2 root    mailman   512 Apr 20 07:20 logs
drwxrwsr-x   2 root    mailman   512 Apr 20 07:11 mail
drwxrwsr-x  34 root    mailman   512 Apr 20 07:11 messages
drwxrwsr-x   6 root    mailman   512 Apr 20 07:11 pythonlib
drwxrwsr-x  11 root    mailman   512 Apr 20 02:49 qfiles
drwxrwsr-x   2 root    mailman   512 Apr 20 07:11 scripts
drwxrwsr-x   2 root    mailman   512 Apr 20 07:11 spam
drwxrwsr-x  35 root    mailman   512 Apr 20 07:11 templates
drwxrwsr-x   4 root    mailman   512 Apr 20 07:11 tests
[root at dns1 /usr/local/mailman]# postfix reload
postfix/postfix-script: refreshing the Postfix mail system
[root at dns1 /usr/local/mailman]# bin/check_perms
/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases.db owned by nobody (must be owned by mailman
/usr/local/mailman/data/virtual-mailman.db owned by nobody (must be owned by 
mailman
Problems found: 2
Re-run as mailman (or root) with -f flag to fix
[root at dns1 /usr/local/mailman]# 

David