When I use the web pages to view or change the config.db of a test list I made, the ownership changes from mailman to nobody. If I use the command line it seems to work fine.

my system is slackware 7.1, Python 2.0, Mailman 2.0rc1

I compiled Mailman ./configure --perfix=/usr/local/mailman --with-mail-gid=2 --with-cgi-gid=98

My system is running sendmail and it is at gid=2, my apache is running at gid=98

With this setup every time I use the web page I can see the ownership of the config.dbs change to nobody, I'm assuming that is because that is the use for apache. After that I get an error saying that [Errno13] Permission denied '/usr/local/mailman.lists/test/config.db' this make sense because the file config.db is no longer owned by mailman.

The only way I was able to get mailman running was to reinstall it with the --with-username=nobody tag in the ./configure and to change the ownership of all files to nobody.mailman

Is'nt the tag --with-cgi-gid= supposed to make it possible to have differnt users for the webserver and mailman?

-- Jeff Maxwell jeff@crossvalley.com