[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#406223: mailman: "create" cgi fails to update aliases file

[luca]

Package: mailman
Version: 2.1.5-8sarge5
Severity: normal

When creating a new list with the web interface, the "create" cgi script
fails to modify the file /etc/aliases. Our MTA is sendmail.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages mailman depends on:
ii  apache2-mpm-prefork [ 2.0.54-5sarge1     traditional model for Apache2
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.ds1-22sarge4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  logrotate             3.7-5              Log rotation utility
ii  pwgen                 2.03-1             Automatic Password generation
ii  python                2.3.5-2            An interactive high-level object-o
ii  sendmail-bin [mail-tr 8.13.4-3sarge3     powerful, efficient, and scalable 
ii  ucf                   1.17               Update Configuration File: preserv

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