[Mailman-Users] Newbie needs help

irwin irwin at taranto.com
Thu Aug 1 03:41:28 CEST 2002


On Wednesday 31 July 2002 06:20 pm, you wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>       I am a newbie self taught Linux user, so this is probably
> embarrassingly simple.  I have installed Mailman, run check_perms
> and fixed the errors from that, and my test list sends to me.  However, the
> web pages and e-mail sent to the list both return messages (below).  I
> think part or all of my problem is setting the server so Mailman is allowed
> to run CGI scripts.  I have no idea where to set this permission, and am
> unsure of what to write to the appropriate file.  I am running Redhat 7.1
> and Ensim.
> Thanks in advance, Paul

Looks to me like you are running a later version of sendmail which uses a 
smrsh utility for the /etc/aliases file executions.   If you have the source, 
read README.SENDMAIL and see if that is your problem.  If you don't have that 
file. drop a a personal note and I'll send it to you.

Irwin



> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>----------------------------------------------------------------- Mail sent
> to test list returns:
>
>     ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> "|/home/virtual/site5/fst/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test4"
>      (reason: service unavailable)
>      (expanded from: <test4-request at women-of-worth.org>)
>
>     ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> smrsh: wrapper not available for sendmail programs
> 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable
> Reporting-MTA: dns; ensim.rackshack.net
> Arrival-Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 18:12:03 -0500
>
> Final-Recipient: RFC822; test4-request at women-of-worth.org
> X-Actual-Recipient: X-Unix;
>
> |/home/virtual/site5/fst/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test4
>
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.5.0
> Diagnostic-Code: X-Unix; 69
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
> http://women-of-worth.org/mailman/admin/test4 returns:
> Internal Server Error
> The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable
> to complete your request.
> Please contact the server administrator, paul at byerly-of-texas.com and
> inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have
> done that may have caused the error.
> More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
>
> Apache/1.3.19 Server
> -----




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