Fwd: [Mailman-Users] Mailman CGI error!!!

[jpsota at gmail.com]

Glenn,

My /etc/group file has the following entry:

mailman:x:41:

I don't have an /etc/groups file on my system. I'm assuming you mean /etc/group.

bash$ id mailman
uid=41(mailman) gid=41(mailman) groups=41(mailman)

(as root)
bash$ ./check_perms -f
No problems found

Hmm... sitll the same problems. Do you or anyone else have any new ideas?

Many thanks,
jim




On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:16:26 -0500, Glenn Sieb <ges+lists at wingfoot.org> wrote:
> jpsota at gmail.com said the following on 2/16/2005 8:26 AM:
> 
> >Hi, I'm still having trouble with installing Mailman. The original
> >error is as follows:
> >
> >Mailman CGI error!!!
> >The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being
> >stored in your syslog:
> >
> >Failure to lookup via getgrgid() the group info for group id -1 that
> >this Mailman CGI wrapper is executing under.
> >This is probably due to an incorrectly configured system and is not a
> >Mailman problem
> >
> >I listed some responses to questions people on the list asked. I think
> >there's a system configuration problem, but I'm not sure if it's with
> >my users or groups or apache config etc. I'd really appreciate the
> >help. I'm also willing to perform a brute force solution.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >jim
> >
> My bet is you don't have a group ID set in /etc/groups.
> 
> Try running check_perms -f and see if it's able to fix things. If not,
> it should yell about what group ID it needs..
> 
> Best,
> --Glenn
> 
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