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 <reks@iiap.res.in> wrote:

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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>----------------

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