Mailman gid problem

[Jeffrey Goldberg]

[I'm adding ports at freebsd.org to the cc in the hopes of making it  
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On Apr 20, 2007, at 1:38 PM, David Southwell wrote:

> I'm sorry -- I did in fact try to send it but mailman trashed my  
> mail system
> and I lost the thread.

OK, thanks.

>
> Here it is
>
> -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

OK, the aliases files need to be owned by "nobody" so

  chown nobody aliases* virtual-aliases* virtual-mailman*

will fix that.  When new files are added, we want them to be owned by  
"nobody" so also do a

  chown nobody /usr/local/mailman/data

Those chown's will have to be done as root.

Cheers,

-j


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