[Mailman-Users] Lists work, web doesn't.

[Tess Snider]

On 16 Feb 2003, Jon Carnes wrote:

> Hmmm, It's been awhile since I played with FreeBSD (I like OpenBSD a bit
> more).

FreeBSD?  This is Linux! ;)

> It sounds like a rights problem.  Try commenting out the security job
> for a bit and then opening up the rights on the whole Mailman directory
> structure - just as a test.  In the past some folks running BSD have had
> similar problems due to rights on the directory structure.

I'm going to poke around, and figure out where this security thing is.
It's driving me batty.  Mandrake put it on, automatically, and while I
appreciate its concern for the security of my machine, I don't like things
clobbering my deliberately-set permissions!

> BTW: Mailman's check_perms program doesn't check the whole directory
> tree, just the part from ~mailman on down.  If mailman's directory is
> hung off an inaccessible root directory then external apps (like say
> apache) could have real difficulty in reading your lists.

It's just in the regular old default /home/mailman.  There should be
nothing wrong with my /home directory, because I can browse to my ~user
(/home/user) directories just fine.

> I'm guessing that you are not running the Apache server in a chroot'ed
> environment.

No, it's not chrooted, and hasn't been, to date.  (Which is not to say I
won't do that in the future, but I'd like to have everything working
before going off and doing something that's going to break it all, again.
;) )

Tess