Mailman + Postfix

Robert Bell robert at thebellfamily.com
Wed Aug 24 06:15:14 UTC 2005


I installed Mailman 2.1.5 on FC4 tonight and followed the directions on 
their website. It seems to have gone well with the exception that the 
CGI doesn't generate the aliases, I have to do that by hand. In the 
mailman error log I see this.  How can I tell why postalias is failing?

Aug 23 23:06:13 2005 (27677) command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias 
/etc/mailman/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted)
Aug 23 23:06:13 2005 admin(27677): 
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admin(27677): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.5 -----]
admin(27677): [----- Traceback ------]
admin(27677): Traceback (most recent call last):
admin(27677):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 101, in 
run_main
admin(27677):     main()
admin(27677):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 55, 
in main
admin(27677):     process_request(doc, cgidata)
admin(27677):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 226, 
in process_request
admin(27677):     sys.modules[modname].create(mlist, cgi=1)
admin(27677):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 
232, in create
admin(27677):     _update_maps()
admin(27677):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 53, 
in _update_maps
admin(27677):     raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr)
admin(27677): RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias 
/etc/mailman/aliases




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