## Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5

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#### Traceback:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main
        main()
      File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 55, in main
        process_request(doc, cgidata)
      File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 187, in process_request
        mlist.Create(listname, owner, pw, langs, emailhost)
      File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 454, in Create
        self._full_path = Site.get_listpath(name, create=1)
      File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Site.py", line 65, in get_listpath
        _makedir(path)
      File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Site.py", line 40, in _makedir
        os.makedirs(path, 02775)
      File "/usr/src/build/475206-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.3/os.py", line 154, in makedirs
        mkdir(name, mode)
    OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/lists/foobar'

#### Python information:

Variable | Value
--- | ---
`sys.version` | 2.3.4 (#1, Oct 26 2004, 16:42:40) [GCC 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)]
`sys.executable` | /usr/bin/python
`sys.prefix` | /usr
`sys.exec_prefix` | /usr
`sys.path` | /usr
`sys.platform` | linux2

#### Environment variables:

Variable | Value
--- | ---
`HTTP_COOKIE` | mailman+admin=280200000069e4f40042732800000033373235613139343930363165396630303934343233636332633762653464643338666364306465
`SERVER_SOFTWARE` | Apache/2.0.52 (Fedora)
`SCRIPT_NAME` | /mailman/create
`SERVER_SIGNATURE` |
`REQUEST_METHOD` | POST
`HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE` | 300
`SERVER_PROTOCOL` | HTTP/1.1
`QUERY_STRING` |
`CONTENT_LENGTH` | 147
`HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET` | ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
`HTTP_USER_AGENT` | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Firefox/0.10.1
`HTTP_CONNECTION` | keep-alive
`HTTP_REFERER` | http://mailtest.lab.boston.redhat.com/mailman/create
`SERVER_NAME` | mailtest.lab.boston.redhat.com
`REMOTE_ADDR` | 172.16.80.36
`SERVER_PORT` | 80
`SERVER_ADDR` | 192.168.76.132
`DOCUMENT_ROOT` | /var/www/html
`PYTHONPATH` | /usr/lib/mailman
`SCRIPT_FILENAME` | /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/create
`SERVER_ADMIN` | root@localhost
`HTTP_HOST` | mailtest.lab.boston.redhat.com
`REQUEST_URI` | /mailman/create
`HTTP_ACCEPT` | text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
`GATEWAY_INTERFACE` | CGI/1.1
`REMOTE_PORT` | 58305
`HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE` | en-us,en;q=0.5
`CONTENT_TYPE` | application/x-www-form-urlencoded
`HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING` | gzip,deflate