[Mailman-Users] "Mailman CGI error!!! Operation not permitted" - after upgrading Apache to 2.4
Tomasz Chmielewski
mangoo at wpkg.org
Wed Jun 25 17:32:19 CEST 2014
On 2014-06-25 16:59, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> On 06/25/2014 03:09 AM, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>> I've updated Apache to 2.4, and my mailman installation refuses to
>> work
>> with the following information:
>>
>> Mailman CGI error!!!
>> The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is
>> being stored in your syslog:
>>
>> Operation not permitted
>
>
> What if anything is in the Apache error_log?
Absolutely nothing in Apache error_log.
I found the cause:
It works fine if I use apache2-mpm-prefork, but fails if I use
apache2-mpm-itk[1].
ITK lets you choose a user which executes any given vhost and I prefer
to run this version.
With older Apache version, Mailman was working fine with Apache-ITK.
Here, something's missing and doesn't work.
I'll try your other suggestions to see if I can get more information.
>> The only things I see in logs is basically the same as above:
>>
>> Jun 25 11:59:37 web1 Mailman cgi-wrapper (listinfo): Operation not
>> permitted
>> Jun 25 12:01:15 web1 Mailman cgi-wrapper (admin): Operation not
>> permitted
>>
>>
>> I've tried stracing Apache process to see where it might get
>> permission
>> issues, but I don't see anything like it.
>>
>> Does anyone have a clue how to fix it?
>
>
> The cgi-wrapper is invoked by the web server. It checks the callers
> group and then calls scripts/driver which in turn runs the actual
> Mailman/Cgi/* script.
>
> Normally, exceptions encountered by the admin.py, listinfo.py, etc.
> script are reported by the driver with a full traceback.
>
> It seems in this case the driver script encounters the Operation not
> permitted exception either before or in the process of trying to print
> a
> traceback.
>
> See the comments at the beginning of scripts/driver.
>
> You can manually run as root or a user in Mailman's group
>
> export REQUEST_METHOD=GET
> python /path/to/scripts/driver listinfo
>
> and see what that produces.
[1] http://mpm-itk.sesse.net/
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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://www.sslrack.com
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