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:

VariableValue
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:

VariableValue
HTTP_COOKIE mailman+admin=280200000069e4f40042732800000033373235613139343930363165396630303934343233636332633762653464643338666364306465
SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/2.0.52 (Fedora)
SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/create
SERVER_SIGNATURE
Apache/2.0.52 (Fedora) Server at mailtest.lab.boston.redhat.com Port 80
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