[Mailman-Users] What happened to my administration login?

[Tom Whiting]

Hello, julie

This error tells you exactly how configure mailman to work correctly. 
Apparently you've changed something in the server, and now mailman doesn't 
like the setup.

In this case, it looks liek your apache gid got lost in the shuffle somehow. 
Have you tried restarting http? Have you installed any software into your 
system that would change users/groups?

Most importantly, have you used mailman since it was installed, and verified 
that it was actually working, and if you did, how long ago did it quit?




On Wednesday 25 September 2002 09:14 pm, Beachfrontads at aol.com wrote:
> I paid someone to install Mailman for me in March of this year.  Everything
> has been fine til now.  I'm getting this error message when I try to login
> to the administrative page:
>
> 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: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 99, GOT gid -1.
> (Reconfigure to take -1?)
> ----------------------------------------
>
> I have not changed the script.  What happened and how can I fix it?  I have
> no knowledge of scripts.
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Julie