check mailman installation

[Marius Gedminas]

On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 04:30:45AM +0000, thufir wrote:
> Oddly:
> 
> thufir at dur:~$ 
> thufir at dur:~$ sudo /usr/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms 
> /var/lib/mailman/cron bad group (has: root, expected list)
> /var/lib/mailman/logs bad group (has: root, expected list)
> /var/lib/mailman/icons bad group (has: root, expected list)
> /var/lib/mailman/mail bad group (has: root, expected list)
> /var/lib/mailman/locks bad group (has: root, expected list)
> /var/lib/mailman/Mailman bad group (has: root, expected list)
> /var/lib/mailman/cgi-bin bad group (has: root, expected list)
> /var/lib/mailman/templates bad group (has: root, expected list)
> /var/lib/mailman/bin bad group (has: root, expected list)
> /var/lib/mailman/scripts bad group (has: root, expected list)
> Problems found: 10
> Re-run as list (or root) with -f flag to fix
> thufir at dur:~$ 
> 
> 
> Is this some sort of installation problem?  I don't get it, I installed 
> from apt.  Does this indicate that something went wrong with the install?

It indicates a mismatch between what upstream thinks is appropriate
directory ownership, and what Debian/Ubuntu maintainers think.

Personally I trust Debian maintainers.  I've been running a Mailman
installation on a 12.04 LTS server for many years now, with no issues,
despite /usr/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms complaining about the same
"problems".

HTH,
Marius Gedminas
-- 
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