[Mailman-Users] CGI-GID problem (wanted 99, got -1)

[Donal Hunt]

Robb,

I'm pretty sure this is related to a bug with suexec and cgid in Apache
2 (though i could be wrong). A developer on one of the systems here in
DCU has written some patches that should be part of the apache 2.0.37
release.

In the meantime, these patches are available here:
		http://redbrick.dcu.ie/~colmmacc/httpd.patch

or you can mail Colm directly at colmmacc at redbrick.dcu.ie for more info.
Regards

Donal
DCU

Robb Anderson wrote:
> I've been reading through all the documentation for both Mailman and apache
> and can't seem to figure this out.  i also couldn't find anything in the
> archives
> 
> I'm running Redhat 7.3, Mailman 2.0.11, and Apache 2.  
> 
> i compiled both apache and mailman from source code and made all the changes
> to permissions and added the lines to the files as specified in the Mailman
> install docs.   when i get to the end and create a newlist the message gets
> sent out and when i go to the page specified in the E-mail i get the CGI-GID
> error page.   expected 99 got -1 (reconfigure to take -1?)  so i went back
> did make clean and then did a ./configure setting the cgi-GID to be -1 and
> it tells me no such group exists, so i tried GID apache, no such group
> again.   i was about to try nobody, which is the group that apache seems to
> be running under (it's definitely the user anyway) but that GID is 99.
> which is what it expected to begin with.    
> 
> anyone able to help me or point me towards some Docs that will help me solve
> this problem, I'm having no luck finding anything.