mailman cron

[Sean]

Did you create the mailman user? and does it have group write permissions? 
</stab in the dark>

On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Marcel Kunath wrote:

> I am being bombarded with cron messages by mailman. Otherwise mailman seems to
> function fine...
> 
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 222, in ?
>     main()
>   File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 198, in main
>     lock.lock(timeout=0.5)
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 219, in lock
>     self.__write()
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 346, in __write
>     fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w')
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/home/mailman/locks/gate_news.lock.mail.7410'
> 
> 
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 271, in ?
>     lock.lock(timeout=0.5)
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 219, in lock
>     self.__write()
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 346, in __write
>     fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w')
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/home/mailman/locks/qrunner.lock.mail.7392'
> 
> 
> 
> permissions thru out directories is root.:mailman /check_perms gave no errors.
> 
> mk
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