[Mailman-Users] error

[test]

drwxrwsr-x   18 mailman  mailman      4096 Feb  1 23:53 /opt/home/mailman/

all dirs hight (/opt/home and /opt are also o+x)

check_perms says that all is peachy keen


On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Tony Abbott wrote:

> Sounds very much like permissions to me. check permissions further up the
> tree. Make sure that all the parent directorys are at least o+x. If you're 
> running redhat and used useradd to create your mailman user I'd start with 
>    ls -lad /opt/home/mailman
> 
> -t
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:39:31PM +0100, Kris 'dJOEk' Vandecruys wrote:
> > On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Dan Mick wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > > hi,
> > > > i did a by-the-README/INSTALL install of mailman 2.0.1 and i get this
> > > > error in my www.elog
> > > > 
> > > > [Thu Feb  1 14:18:02 2001] [error] (1)Operation not permitted: exec of
> > > > /opt/home/mailman/cgi-bin/admin failed
> > > 
> > > So, the completely-obvious questions are:
> > > 
> > > is it executable?  Is it executable by the user your web server runs
> > > CGIs as?
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman  mailman      4096 Feb  1 22:58 .
> > drwxrwsr-x   18 mailman  mailman      4096 Feb  1 22:58 ..
> > -rwxr-sr-x    1 mailman  mailman     30794 Feb  1 22:58 admin
> > and the same for the other cgis
> > 
> > apache runs em as nobody, and i ./configured mailman with the
> > correct mail-gid and cgi-gid (got them out of sendmail.cf and httpd.conf
> > as described)
> > 
> > Everything works, except the web frontend... 
> > 
> > I get a server error 500
> > 
> > this is the error in my elog:
> > [Thu Feb  1 23:08:29 2001] [error] (1)Operation not permitted: exec of
> > /opt/home/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo failed
> > [Thu Feb  1 23:08:29 2001] [error] [client 213.224.83.70] Premature end of
> > script headers: /opt/home/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo
> > 
> > i tried taking the s-bit off the cgis, and then i get a different error:
> > (so that the scripts are run as nobody, not as mailman)
> > the page gives me 
> > 1. Bug in mailman blah blah
> > from .elog -> can't write to error
> > changes perms of logs/error to 777 (temporary) 
> > 2. Bug in mailman blah bla
> > from logs/errors -> can't read write config.db
> > course not, the thing runs as nobody and config.db is 
> > -rw-rw----    1 mailman  mailman      2931 Feb  1 23:13 config.db
> > 
> > I got it sorta running after a lot of shifting perms, but then the mail
> > part doesn't work anymore...
> > 
> > i thought about setting apache's gid to mailman but that would break the
> > other cgis, right ?
> > 
> > frankly i'm at a loss...
> > it's probably something silly that i'm overlooking, but a couple of
> > friends which also know what they are doing can't figure it out either
> > 
> > any suggestions are highly appreciated 
> > 
> > bye,
> > Kris
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > Mailman-Users maillist  -  Mailman-Users at python.org
> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
> 
> -- 
> 
>    Tony Abbott				tabbott at systemsfusion.com
> 
> 
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