[Mailman-Users] can't call command line functions from php

[Anne Ramey]

Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Anne Ramey wrote:
>
>   
>>>> I have my php script running as a user in the mailman group, but when I
>>>> try to do:
>>>>    //add user to Admin email list
>>>>    $command = "/usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members -r ".$Filename." 
>>>> admins";
>>>>    system($command, $status);
>>>>
>>>> I get a status of 1 returned to me and it doesn't add the users.  
>>>>         
> and:
>
>   
>> My safe_mode is Off.  There are no errors in my http log and none output 
>> to the screen.  I can run other commands with system and 
>> shell_exec...just not any mailman commands.
>>     
>
>
> Are you sure you're executing the command as the mailman group?
>
> Try
>
> chmod g+s /usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members
>
> and see if that helps. If it does, the problem is with the group
> executing the command.
>
> You don't want to leave add_members as SETGID if non Mailman admins
> have shell access to your box as SETGID will allow anyone to
> successfully run the command.
>   
That didn't help.  I have found an error:
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
'/usr/local/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck'
it was in my main apache log, not the log for the virtual server I am 
running the command off of.  What I get permission denied to depends on 
what command I'm trying to run.  Sometimes it's a lock file.  If it's a 
group thing, I don't understand why--my perl scripts can run these 
commands fine, but my php cannot.  They both run from the same web 
server, so they'll both be running as the same user. 

Anne