On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 11:32 pm, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 12:03 PM, patkins wrote:
The user and group exist:...
group > mailman:x:506: passwd > mailman:x:506:506::/usr/local/mailman:/dev/nullMailman CGI error!!!
The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being
stored in your syslog:
Failure to find group name mailman. Try adding this group
to your system, or re-run configure, providing an
existing group name with the command line option --with-cgi-gid.
Have you tried verifying the group outside of Mailman? For example have
you tried executing chgrp on some file using the mailman group? If that
works as expected, double check the group associated with the CGI
wrappers in Mailman's cgi-bin directory. A quick look at the code seems
to imply that either your group file is somehow broken or the group
settings are incorrect for one or more of your wrapper files.
Jim
hi,
I've a problem with the wrapper too. Could you tell me where are the wrapper configuration files ? My problem is mailman can not read the wrapper configuration files.
There are no wrapper configuration files as such.
For security reasons, Mailman mail delivery scripts and CGI scripts are executed by compiled C wrapper programs which are generated by the ./configure and make install process when MM is built from source. This process compiles into the wrappers the knowledge of what GID (--with-mail-gid) the mail wrapper expects to be executed as and what GID (--with-cgi-gid) the CGI wrapper expects to be executed as. Only if they are executed with the correct GID will the wrappers setgid to the mailman GID before executing the mail delivery and CGI scripts.
The wrapper setgid is done to the mailman group which can be specified to ./configure with --with-groupname just as the Mailman user can be specified with --with-username, if something other than the default mailman:mailman is to be used.
You must determine what GID your MTA runs as and what GID your Apache server runs its child processes as. In the case of Apache, it is normally started as root and this master Apache process setgid's its child processes to the GID specified by the Group directive in Apache's httpd.conf file, so this latter GID is the one you should specify at MM ./configure time.
make install puts the wrapper programs in $exec-prefix/cgi-bin/ and $exec-prefix/mail/ directories.
Regards, Alex.
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