[Mailman-Users] Problem after installation?

[Jon Carnes]

Steven, this is actually in the FAQ.  It looks like you need to set the
web-server Group ID correctly when you run "./configure".  What
user/group does your web-server run as?

Typically it is "apache" or "nobody".  As you haven't included your OS
or your version of Mailman or any other relevant information it is
harder to be of more help.

In general you can find the GID for the CGI by using:
  cd /etc/httpd/conf ; grep ^Group *

Good Luck - HtH.

On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 16:38, Steven Cummings wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I noticed one other posting to this mailing list from a person with my same problem but no response, so here goes nothing. Mailman seemed to install fine, I started it up as root and I got the first email indicating that I was the owner of the first list ('mailman'). But trying to view ANY of the pages under '/mailman' through the web-server gives me the following error:
> 
> Failure to find group name mailman.  Try adding this group
> to your system, or re-run configure, providing an
> existing group name with the command line option --with-cgi-gid.
> 
> The group does exist, and I've found that even if I exclude the with-cgi-gid option it tries to run as nobody(gid=99) and gives me the same error, and of course that group exists.
> 
> The options I used during configuration were --with-mail-gid=mail (or 12) and --with-cgi-gid=mailman. Does anybody have any idea of how this can be solved? Thanks!
> 
> /S