Perhaps I'm missing something really obvious. I maintain a server running the mailman software. It's a FreeBSD 4.9 server running mailman-2.1.5_2. After the upgrade the mmsearch command will not run from the cgi directory.

Running it gets:

Mailman CGI error!!! The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being stored in your syslog:

No such file or directory

I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out what permission or problem with apache would cause this since it all looked right. I installed this from the ports collection. Then I ran across a link in my history for that server that pulled up listinfo from the cgi-bin. listinfo worked. Upon further inspection I saw that the mmsearch file was not updated in the upgrade:

-rwxr-sr-x 1 www mailman 17738 Feb 19 14:46 admin -rwxr-sr-x 1 www mailman 17742 Feb 19 14:46 admindb -rwxr-sr-x 1 www mailman 17742 Feb 19 14:46 confirm -rwxr-sr-x 1 www mailman 17742 Feb 19 14:46 create -rwxr-sr-x 1 www mailman 17754 Feb 19 14:46 edithtml -rwxr-sr-x 1 www mailman 17890 Oct 8 2003 htdig -rwxr-sr-x 1 www mailman 17754 Feb 19 14:46 listinfo -rwxr-sr-x 1 www mailman 17906 Oct 8 2003 mmsearch -rwxr-sr-x 1 www mailman 17742 Feb 19 14:46 options -rwxr-sr-x 1 www mailman 17742 Feb 19 14:46 private -rwxr-sr-x 1 www mailman 17742 Feb 19 14:46 rmlist -rwxr-sr-x 1 www mailman 17742 Feb 19 14:46 roster -rwxr-sr-x 1 www mailman 17754 Feb 19 14:46 subscribe

Which ones of these guys don't look like the others? *grin* htdig-3.2.0.b6 is installed on this machine and I found these: ../Mailman/Cgi/mmsearch.py ../Mailman/Cgi/mmsearch.pyc &

-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 119892 Feb 17 14:26 /usr/local/bin/htdig

Not being a python coder myself, I don't know if I'm supposed to set up apache to execute the python scripts or if there is a way to compile these. I'm just really at a loss at the moment for what to do next. The date on the htdig in /usr/local/bin seems to indicate mailman is using an old htdig. I don't know how to create/get a newer mmsearch though.

How do I get the mmsearch working again in the cgi directory with the htdig and web server? The documentation and archives don't seem to mention mmsearch much.

Thanks for any help or suggestions in advance.

Gerald