From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 29 21: 3:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9923B37B401 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 21:03:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp03.wlv.untd.com (smtp03.wlv.untd.com [209.247.163.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E4D3443EBE for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 21:03:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from idiot1@netzero.net) Received: (qmail 22389 invoked from network); 30 Nov 2002 05:03:22 -0000 Received: from dialup-63.208.201.194.dial1.tampa1.level3.net (HELO netzero.net) (63.208.201.194) by smtp03.wlv.untd.com with SMTP; 30 Nov 2002 05:03:22 -0000 Message-ID: <3DE846DB.6020206@netzero.net> Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 00:04:27 -0500 From: Kirk Bailey Organization: Silas Dent Memorial Cabal of ERIS Esoteric and hot dog boiling society User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: furter data on permissions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG here is the script's web output: -- TinyList I am executing as identity "uid=65534(nobody) gid=65534(nobody) groups=65534(nobody)" Owner Email=idiot1@netzero.net password=gibbonbreath listname=testlist3 WORKING... List found, proceeding... PASSWORD AND EMAIL MATCH UP. INITIATING DESTRUCTION SEQUENCE... ['./lists/testlist3.farewell', './lists/testlist3.owner', './lists/testlist3.welcome', './lists/testlist3.info', './lists/testlist3.randompreface', './lists/testlist3.preface'] ./lists/testlist3.farewell ./lists/testlist3.owner ./lists/testlist3.welcome ./lists/testlist3.info ./lists/testlist3.randompreface ./lists/testlist3.preface at which point it aborts. These are the indivigual files for a list beign deleted, one at a time. Here is the weberrorlog: Traceback (innermost last): File "/www/www.tinylist.org/cgi-bin/TLlistkill2.py", line 188, in ? f2 = open('/etc/mail/aliases.new','w') # and a temp file IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/mail/aliases.new' The aliases file is owned by root. a ls-l quote: ns# cd /etc/mail/ ns# ls -l aliases -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7550 Nov 12 01:12 aliases ns# I even tried to set it as 5755, still no luck, the thing cannot set a temp file in that directory. here is the permissions for /mail: ns# ls -ld mail drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 1024 Nov 5 02:23 mail ns# Any ideas? end Respectfully, Kirk D Bailey +---------------------"Thou Art Free." -Eris-----------------------+ | http://www.howlermonkey.net mailto:highprimate@howlermonkey.net | | KILL spam dead! http://www.scambusters.org/stopspam/#Pledge | | http://www.tinylist.org +--------+ mailto:grumpy@tinylist.org | +------------------Thinking| NORMAL |Thinking----------------------+ +--------+ --------------------------------------------- Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message