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

[Manlio Perillo]

Package: mailman
Version: 2.1.5-8sarge1
Severity: important

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

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

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=it_IT at euro, LC_CTYPE=it_IT at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages mailman depends on:
ii  apache2-mpm-worker [httpd]  2.0.54-5     high speed threaded model for Apac
ii  cron                        3.0pl1-86    management of regular background p
ii  debconf                     1.4.30.13    Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  logrotate                   3.7-5        Log rotation utility
ii  postfix [mail-transport-age 2.1.5-9      A high-performance mail transport 
ii  pwgen                       2.03-1       Automatic Password generation
ii  python                      2.3.5-2      An interactive high-level object-o
ii  ucf                         1.17         Update Configuration File: preserv

-- debconf information:
  mailman/queue_files_present:
* mailman/default_server_language: en
  mailman/gate_news: false
* mailman/site_languages: en
* mailman/used_languages:
* mailman/create_site_list: