Re: [Mailman-Users] config.pck, apache, permissions and Errno 13

2005-09-15 Thread John W. Baxter
On 9/14/05 10:46 AM, "Sam Gamgee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yes yes yes. I know that. > but the results are not permanent. My problem is trying to find out why. If the fixes are not permanent, then something is "fixing" them. My memory of the thread says that this happens periodically. I've

Re: [Mailman-Users] config.pck, apache, permissions and Errno 13 SOLVED

2005-09-14 Thread John Dennis
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 21:47 +0200, Sam Gamgee wrote: > thanks! that did it. > the permissions were wrong, and they weren't being corrected by check_perms -f > > for me it was: > /var/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/ > which is: > /var/lib/mailman/cgi-bin -> /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman hmm... it's troubling that

Re: [Mailman-Users] config.pck, apache, permissions and Errno 13 SOLVED

2005-09-14 Thread Sam Gamgee
> % ls -l /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/ > total 264 > -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 18345 Mar 7 2005 admin > -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 18349 Mar 7 2005 admindb > -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 18349 Mar 7 2005 confirm > -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 18349 Mar 7 2005 create > -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] config.pck, apache, permissions and Errno 13

2005-09-14 Thread John Dennis
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 19:46 +0200, Sam Gamgee wrote: > yes yes yes. I know that. > but the results are not permanent. My problem is trying to find out why. > I'm trying to tell you why :-) Below are the cgi wrappers on my system as a reference point, adjust the path for your installation. The key

Re: [Mailman-Users] config.pck, apache, permissions and Errno 13

2005-09-14 Thread Sam Gamgee
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 19:29, you wrote: > On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 18:45 +0200, Sam Gamgee wrote: > > yes I have run check_perms several times. > > I often get wrong group errors such as: > > > > /var/lib/mailman/logs/qrunner bad group (has: list, expected mailman) > > /var/lib/mailman/logs/s

Re: [Mailman-Users] config.pck, apache, permissions and Errno 13

2005-09-14 Thread John Dennis
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 18:45 +0200, Sam Gamgee wrote: > yes I have run check_perms several times. > I often get wrong group errors such as: > > /var/lib/mailman/logs/qrunner bad group (has: list, expected mailman) > /var/lib/mailman/logs/smtp bad group (has: list, expected mailman) > > I don't kno

Re: [Mailman-Users] config.pck, apache, permissions and Errno 13

2005-09-14 Thread John Dennis
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 16:08 +0200, Sam Gamgee wrote: > I then installed from source with the "--with-mail-gid=mailman" option. > Thats the situation I'm in now -> I can mail, but I can't use the web > interface properly. What did you specify as --with-cgi-gid? Both mail and cgi have to line up w

Re: [Mailman-Users] config.pck, apache, permissions and Errno 13

2005-09-14 Thread Sam Gamgee
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 08:15, Sythos wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 04:11:22AM +0200, Sam Gamgee wrote: > > -I installed mailman on a debian server with postfix. > > > >From debian mailman package or from source? I'm sorry I was mistaken earlier. It's a ubuntu server and not debian. I in

Re: [Mailman-Users] config.pck, apache, permissions and Errno 13

2005-09-13 Thread Sythos
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 04:11:22AM +0200, Sam Gamgee wrote: > -I installed mailman on a debian server with postfix. >From debian mailman package or from source? -- Sythos - http://www.sythos.net () ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against html/rtf/vCard in mail /\- against

[Mailman-Users] config.pck, apache, permissions and Errno 13

2005-09-13 Thread Sam Gamgee
hello everyone, I am writing this e-mail as a sort of last resort. Believe me I've tried hard, but can't find a solution to the following problem. -I installed mailman on a debian server with postfix. -all mailing lists work. -webinterface works. now, whenever the cronscripts run, or somebody