[Mailman-Users] 14 hours and still not there

[Paul H Byerly]

Jon Carnes wrote:
>So you need to setup the chrooted smrsh and setup the mailman groups and
>user in the local /etc of the chroot.

      Got that covered, been putting everything in both /etc and chroot etc .

>The main problem I had at the time was getting python to work inside the
>Chroot.  I had to install it from source inside the Chroot (the system
>version was way behind).

      I have seen no problem with that yet, maybe I have not gotten far 
enough?  I can certainly run the Python set up in the Chroot and see if it 
helps.

>I'll take you up on that!  That's why I'm sharing my notes.

      Appreciate it.  My first attempt hosed my server and all the sites 
went down - but I had back ups of changed files and we able to recover in a 
heart stopped 90 seconds.  Apparently changes in /etc/group and/or 
/etc/passwd must be accompanied by a change some place else as my httpd 
restart failed with:

Processing config file: /etc/httpd/conf/virtual/site1
httpd: bad group name admin1

      I'm guessing I need to go to that file and change  'Group admin1' to 
'Group 12' ?

      The again there is  /etc/appliance/apacheconf/site1 with the same 
entry.  Google here I come.

Me:
> > One other question, on getting CGI to run.  Apparently Ensim won't
> > deal with cgi files that have permissions above 755.  When I ran a
> > re-configure after changing the CGI directories to 755, the checkperms saw
> > this as an error and changed it.  If I change the permissions after I'm up
> > and running is this going to break anything in Mailman?


Thee:
>I don't think this is exactly true.  Your chroot environment has a
>limited amount of UserID's and GroupID's that are available to be used
>inside (and really outside as well) the Chroot.

      I've seen this mentioned on a number of Ensim lists, it just won't 
work with anything over 755.  When I get far enough it matters, I'll dig 
into it more.

      As for lack of web pages, I assume that is because the cgi programs 
don't run?  Are the web pages real or created on the fly?  And if real, 
where are they supposed to reside?  I tried manually creating pages and 
could not get to them, apparently a redirect was sending me else where.  I 
have not dissected it yet, but any hints would be appreciated.


<>< Paul