[Mailman-Users] created private, then changed to public, lists not being advertised

Thu Nov 1 14:13:05 CET 2001

I built mailman using the following

./configure --prefix=/home/mailman \
  --with-var-prefix=/home/www/sites/lists.balius.com/docs/ \
  --with-mail-gid=yy \
  --with-cgi-gid=xxx

I changed the system wide default to be private lists.  I then setup a list
and changed it to be a publicly-advertised list, yet it does not show up.

I verified that the user under which the webserver runs has permissions to
read the var-prefix directory, to be really sure I allowed indexes on that
directory for a test, I could see them.

Here's the output from strings run over listinfo

/lib/ld-linux.so.2
__gmon_start__
libc.so.6
strcpy
getgid
printf
strerror
getegid
execve
malloc
vsnprintf
fprintf
strcat
__deregister_frame_info
setregid
openlog
closelog
strncmp
syslog
stderr
__errno_location
exit
_IO_stdin_used
__libc_start_main
__register_frame_info
GLIBC_2.0
PTRh
PPSh
,WVS
/home/mailman/scripts/
/home/mailman
/usr/bin/python
Content-type: text/html
<head>
<title>Mailman CGI error!!!</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Mailman CGI error!!!</h1>
The expected gid of the Mailman CGI wrapper did
not match the gid as set by the Web server.
<p>The most likely cause is that Mailman was
configured and installed incorrectly.  Please
read the INSTALL instructions again, paying close
attention to the <tt>--with-cgi-gid</tt> configure
option.  This entry is being stored in your syslog:
<pre>
</pre>
Failure to exec script. WANTED gid %ld, GOT gid %ld.  (Reconfigure to take
%ld?)
PATH=
PYTHONHOME=
PYTHONPATH=
Mailman cgi-wrapper (listinfo)
listinfo
driver

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Chad