Permissions On Mailman

[Janina Sajka]

Rejean Proulx writes:
> I've managed to mess up the permissions on mailman as a result of a
> typo.  who should own /var/log/mailman?  I am getting the error below.
I have:

Ditto for /var/lib/mailman/

drwxrwsr-x  2 root mailman 4096 Mar 27 04:02 /var/log/mailman/
> 
> st recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 554, in ?
>     main()
>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 366, in main
>     check_for_site_list()
>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 276, in check_for_site_list
>     sitelist = MailList(sitelistname, lock=0)
>   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 128, in __init__
>     self.Load()
>   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 593, in Load
>     dict, e = self.__load(file)
>   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 559, in __load
>     fp = open(dbfile)
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck'
> invoke-rc.d: initscript mailman, action "start" failed.
> 
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