[Mailman-Users] GID cgi problem

[Wim Peeters]

Hello,


I just installed mailman-1.1.

and I got this errror:

****
 Mailman CGI error!!!

 The expected gid of the Mailman CGI wrapper did not match the gid as set by the Web server.

 The most likely cause is that Mailman was configured and installed incorrectly. Please read the INSTALL instructions again, paying close attention to the --with-cgi-gid configure option. This
 entry is being stored in your syslog: 

 ïxïïxîð
***

/* look at the last 'garbage' line */

Syslog says:
============
Feb  3 19:45:23 palm-utp.sonytel.be Mailman cgi-wrapper (listinfo): o^?u`oz^X,oz18

/* again garbage output */

No error log in /home/mailman/log.

I did read:
==========
"-with-cgi-gid=<group-or-groups>
>             Specify an alternative group for running scripts via the
>             CGI wrapper.  <group-or-groups> can be a list of one or
>             more integer group ids or symbolic group names.  The first
>             value in the list that resolves to an existing group is
>             used.  By default, the value is the the list `www www-data
>             nobody'.
> 
"

Configured with:
================
Solaris 2.5.1 and gcc

./configure --prefix=/home/mailman --with-python=/usr/local.host/bin/python --with-mail-gid=daemon --with-cgi-gid=nobody

Apache 1.3.6 runs with:
======================
ps -edalf -o group,comm | grep httpd
   other /wwwi/server/apache-1.3.6/bin/httpd
  nobody /wwwi/server/apache-1.3.6/bin/httpd
  nobody /wwwi/server/apache-1.3.6/bin/httpd
  nobody /wwwi/server/apache-1.3.6/bin/httpd
  nobody /wwwi/server/apache-1.3.6/bin/httpd
  nobody /wwwi/server/apache-1.3.6/bin/httpd

Any idea what's going wrong??
The garbage output bothers me in the WEB output,
When I cahnge apache to run with another GUID,

ps -edalf -o group,comm | grep httpd
   other /wwwi/server/apache-1.3.6/bin/httpd
  daemon /wwwi/server/apache-1.3.6/bin/httpd
  daemon /wwwi/server/apache-1.3.6/bin/httpd
  daemon /wwwi/server/apache-1.3.6/bin/httpd
  daemon /wwwi/server/apache-1.3.6/bin/httpd
  daemon /wwwi/server/apache-1.3.6/bin/httpd


I get:
=====
****
The expected gid of the Mailman CGI wrapper did not match the gid as set by the Web server.

The most likely cause is that Mailman was configured and installed incorrectly. Please read the INSTALL instructions again, paying close attention to the --with-cgi-gid configure option. This
entry is being stored in your syslog: 

Failure to exec script. WANTED gid -268436952, GOT gid 0.  (Reconfigure to take 0?)
****

Which is clearly a different message.

However in syslog:
=================
Feb  3 20:10:37 palm-utp.sonytel.be Mailman cgi-wrapper (listinfo): o^?uHoz^X,oz18
Same blabla..

Anybody?

Best Regards



-- 
Wim Peeters     

System Manager

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