[MM3-users] Permission Error with /var

Tibor Molnar writes:

When try start mailman core PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '//var/templates' A Look, no "opt/mailman/mm" -------------------------+

drwxr-xr-x 2 mailman mailman 4096 Jan 17 16:07 templates

This is presumably in /opt/mailman/mm/var.

I'm guessing you're missing a configuration for the var variable in mailman.cfg, or you're starting Mailman from somewhere where there's another mailman.cfg in the config path before the one you correctly crafted.

The var variable is set in a section called [paths] or [paths.X] where X one of several predefined [paths] sections that can be invoked, and is followed by a colon and usually not indented.

Steve