[Mailman-Users] web interface not working...

Ralph Forsythe rforsythe at centerone.com
Sat Oct 13 18:43:28 CEST 2001


Apache is run under 'httpd/httpd' (user/group).  I compiled mailman using 
the --with-cgi-gid=httpd as I thought it was nobody at first and got 
'expected GID xx, got GID xx' errors when viewing the pages.  I think it's 
running with the right GID now however...

- Ralph

At 10:30 AM 10/13/2001 -0400, Jon Carnes wrote:
>You might want to add the user "nobody" (or whatever you use to run Apache)
>to the group "mailman".  Then make sure that the group mailman can write to
>that dir and those files.
>
>On Friday 12 October 2001 23:12, Ralph Forsythe wrote:
> > Permissions on the logs dir are admin:mailman.  (admin was the acct used
> > to install the program.)  Permissions on the error logfile are
> > mailman:mailman -- this seems like it would work, yes?  Both the dir and
> > file are U+G writeable.
> >
> > Oh, sorry for the HTML on the previous post.  Didn't think that coped
> > over...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > - Ralph
> >
> > At 08:07 PM 10/12/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> > > > Now, the mailman logs don't show anything.  However the httpd error
> > > > log shows the following output (below), which makes me think there is
> > > > some
> > >
> > > kind
> > >
> > > > of permission thing going on.
> > >
> > >Yes, certainly.  So surely the permissions on
> > > /usr/local/mailman/logs/error are gonna be interesting, yes?
> > >
> > >So..um...what are they?
> > >
> > >They oughta be group-write mailman, because error lives in
> > >a directory that ought to be group-sticky mailman...
> >





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