[Mailman-Users] mailman on freeBSD 8.2: getgrgid error
Hi folks, I've been fiddling with mailman 2.1.14 (from freebsd ports) on free BSD 8.2. Everything seems to be fine so far except for the web based stuff. I get the following error when I try to access the page: http://this.great.site/mailman/listinfo ---error Mailman CGI error!!! The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being stored in your syslog: Failure to find group name for GID 80. Mailman expected the CGI wrapper to be executed as group www, but the system's web server executed the wrapper as GID 80 for which the name could not be found. Try adding GID 80 to your system as www, or tweak your web server to run the wrapper as group www. ---/error- This system has a www user and gid is 80 (group = www). In the first attempt, I let freebsd choose its own configure-arguments and later I tried it myself. Error remained the same. AFAIK, src/common.c is checking the GID with getgid() followed by getgrgid(). Now, my machine uses blowfish instead of md5 for passwd. getgid() is returning 80 - which is fine since i have gid(www) = 80 on my system. However, getgrgid(gid) returns null :-| I gave up my fight at that point and decided to ask for help :) I tried to figure out the behaviour of these functions with a small test code: getgrgid() returns gr_passwd = * for blowfish, and gr_passwd = x for md5. Is that an issue with mailman or am I making mistakes somewhere else in the installation? My apache config is given below (I followed the steps in installation doc.) Thanks in advance..! -apache-config4mailman ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/ Alias /pipermail/ /usr/local/mailman/archives/public/ Directory /usr/local/mailman Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all /Directory RedirectMatch ^/mailman[/]*$ http://this.great.site/mailman/listinfo/ -/apache-config4mailman -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman on freeBSD 8.2: getgrgid error
On 01/08/2011 Odhiambo Washington wrote What is the output of this command on your system: grep www /etc/group Here is the output: [root@foo ~]# grep www /etc/group www:*:80:www [root@foo ~]# Thanks! --R On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 23:27, Rekhesh Mohan r...@iiap.res.in wrote: Hi folks, I've been fiddling with mailman 2.1.14 (from freebsd ports) on free BSD 8.2. Everything seems to be fine so far except for the web based stuff. I get the following error when I try to access the page: http://this.great.site/mailman/listinfo ---error Mailman CGI error!!! The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being stored in your syslog: Failure to find group name for GID 80. Mailman expected the CGI wrapper to be executed as group www, but the system's web server executed the wrapper as GID 80 for which the name could not be found. Try adding GID 80 to your system as www, or tweak your web server to run the wrapper as group www. ---/error- This system has a www user and gid is 80 (group = www). In the first attempt, I let freebsd choose its own configure-arguments and later I tried it myself. Error remained the same. AFAIK, src/common.c is checking the GID with getgid() followed by getgrgid(). Now, my machine uses blowfish instead of md5 for passwd. getgid() is returning 80 - which is fine since i have gid(www) = 80 on my system. However, getgrgid(gid) returns null :-| I gave up my fight at that point and decided to ask for help :) I tried to figure out the behaviour of these functions with a small test code: getgrgid() returns gr_passwd = * for blowfish, and gr_passwd = x for md5. Is that an issue with mailman or am I making mistakes somewhere else in the installation? My apache config is given below (I followed the steps in installation doc.) Thanks in advance..! -apache-config4mailman ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/ Alias /pipermail/ /usr/local/mailman/archives/public/ Directory /usr/local/mailman Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all /Directory RedirectMatch ^/mailman[/]*$ http://this.great.site/mailman/listinfo/ -/apache-config4mailman -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/odhiambo%40gma il.com -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman on freeBSD 8.2: getgrgid error
Rekhesh Mohan wrote: AFAIK, src/common.c is checking the GID with getgid() followed by getgrgid(). Now, my machine uses blowfish instead of md5 for passwd. getgid() is returning 80 - which is fine since i have gid(www) = 80 on my system. However, getgrgid(gid) returns null :-| I gave up my fight at that point and decided to ask for help :) This appears to be a C library/OS issue that has nothing to do with Mailman. getgrgid(gid) should return a struct group for the group whose ID is gid. This structure should contain the information which is a representation of the fields in the /etc/groups record for that gid. If gid is valid, the return from getgrgid(gid) should not be null. I tried to figure out the behaviour of these functions with a small test code: getgrgid() returns gr_passwd = * for blowfish, and gr_passwd = x for md5. Is that an issue with mailman or am I making mistakes somewhere else in the installation? Mailman only cares about getgrgid()-gr_name. -- Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.netThe highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Californiabetter use your sense - B. Dylan -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman problem with exim
On 30/07/2011 15:57, Mark Sapiro wrote: Note that if you installed Mailman from a RedHat/CentOS rpm, most examples on the web won't work because the mail wrapper mail/mailman and the lists/ directory are not in the same MM_HOME directory. I.e. the wrapper is /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman and the list directory is /var/lib/mailman/lists/. You got it Mark! I didn't think to check those paths, and in fact they were wrong. The error in the log was misleading me, nothing to do with virtual users and mysql... I should have started with the simplest things... Thanks a lot, I hope this thread can be useful to CentOS users. Lorenzo -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
[Mailman-Users] Can I use /usr/sbin/postmap myself to update virtual-mailman.db?
Hi Mark, I have moved my domains to a new server and have copied many mailing lists from the old server to the new one instead of creating them on the new server one by one. Now I see that the virtual-mailman file isn't updated for these simply copied mailing lists, but only for newly created ones. The file warns me to edit it myself, but rather have it auto-updated from the virtual-mailman.db file. If I have understood the process correctly, every time when I create a new mailing list, Mailman will add the relevant data to the virtual-mailman.db and run /usr/sbin/postmap to have the virtual-mailman file updated for Postfix. Can I do this myself on the Server console? I would really like to avoid having to create all these mailing lists again ... And - yes, they are all properly shown by list_lists and can be used in either way, but still not via the email interface. Any help is appreciated, as always. ---Ulf Dunkel -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Mailman-Users] Can I use /usr/sbin/postmap myself to updatevirtual-mailman.db?
Ulf Dunkel wrote: Now I see that the virtual-mailman file isn't updated for these simply copied mailing lists, but only for newly created ones. The file warns me to edit it myself, but rather have it auto-updated from the virtual-mailman.db file. Actually, that's not what the warning means. See below. If I have understood the process correctly, every time when I create a new mailing list, Mailman will add the relevant data to the virtual-mailman.db and run /usr/sbin/postmap to have the virtual-mailman file updated for Postfix. That's backwards. Mailman adds the relevant data to the virtual-mailman file and then runs /usr/sbin/postmap to update the virtual-mailman.db file from virtual-mailman. When you put something like hash:/path/to/data/virtual-mailman in your Postfix config, that tells Postfix to consult the corresponding /path/to/data/virtual-mailman.db database and to generate warnings in its log if the /path/to/data/virtual-mailman.db is not at least as new as /path/to/data/virtual-mailman Can I do this myself on the Server console? I would really like to avoid having to create all these mailing lists again ... What you want to run is Mailman's bin/genaliases which will completely rebuild data/aliases and data/virtual-mailman based on the lists in the installation including those you added by copying and run the relevant postalias and postmap commands to update the .db files. -- Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.netThe highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Californiabetter use your sense - B. Dylan -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
