Bug#359134: [Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#359134: cgi script create fails to update aliases* and virtual-mailman* files

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 06:21:42AM +0200, Manlio Perillo wrote:

> When creating a new mailing list with the web interface, create cgi
> script fails to modify the files aliases* and virtual-mailman*.

You are running with
 MTA = 'Postfix'
in /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.p ?

> A working solution is to do:
> chmod 0660 /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases.db
> chmod 0660 /var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman.db

What is this good for? These files get recreated every time by
"/usr/sbin/postmap" and "/usr/sbin/postalias", don't they?

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Lionel