[Mailman-Users] cgi-bin permissions problems

[Jana Nguyen]

Have you created the site password? 

/usr/local/mailman/bin/mmsitepass <site passwd>


Jason Novotny wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
>    Thanks everyone for your suggestion-- I did run bin/check_perms and 
> discovered the permissions needed updating. check_perms -f seemed to 
> fix those.
>    However, I'm still getting a 500 error when I try 
> localhost/mailman/create from the web.
>
>    I also made sure that I compiled the cgi-bin exec with the right 
> group, apache:
>
> [root at gridsphere cgi-bin]# strings create | grep apache
> apache
>
>    but I still seem to get:
>
> [Mon Aug 21 14:48:06 2006] [error] [client 132.239.132.180] 
> (13)Permission den
> ied: exec of '/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/create' failed
> [Mon Aug 21 14:48:06 2006] [error] [client 132.239.132.180] Premature 
> end of s
> cript headers: create
>
>
> In my httpd.conf I have the following:
>
> ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/"
> Alias   /pipermail/ "/usr/local/mailman/archives/public/"
>
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/sites/lists.gridsphere.org/cgi-bin/"
>
>    The weird thing is that I placed a "test" cgi script in the 
> /cgi-bin/ alias and it executes fine. However when I place that same 
> test script into /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/  it doesn't work and I 
> get the same permissions problem from before....
>
> Here is my dir structure on /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin now...
>
> [root at gridsphere cgi-bin]# ls -al /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/
> total 244
> drwxrwsr-x   2 gridsphere mailman  4096 Aug 21 12:38 .
> drwxrwsr-x  20 root       mailman  4096 Mar  9 14:05 ..
> -rwxr-sr-x   1 gridsphere mailman 15646 Aug 21 12:14 admin
> -rwxr-sr-x   1 gridsphere mailman 15650 Aug 21 12:14 admindb
> -rwxr-sr-x   1 gridsphere mailman 15650 Aug 21 12:14 confirm
> -rwxr-sr-x   1 gridsphere mailman 15650 Aug 21 12:14 create
> -rwxr-sr-x   1 gridsphere mailman 15654 Aug 21 12:14 edithtml
> -rwxr-sr-x   1 gridsphere mailman 15654 Aug 21 12:14 listinfo
> -rwxr-sr-x   1 gridsphere mailman 15650 Aug 21 12:14 options
> -rwxr-sr-x   1 gridsphere mailman 15650 Aug 21 12:14 private
> -rwxr-sr-x   1 gridsphere mailman 15650 Aug 21 12:14 rmlist
> -rwxr-sr-x   1 gridsphere mailman 15650 Aug 21 12:14 roster
> -rwxr-sr-x   1 gridsphere mailman 15654 Aug 21 12:14 subscribe
>
>    Thanks, Jason
>
>
> Jana Nguyen wrote:
>
>> Try to check your mailman configuration permissions by running:
>>
>> bin/check_perms script. This script will be located in the 
>> /usr/local/mailman
>>
>>>
>>>  ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/"
>>>  
>>>
>> ScriptAlias /mailman/  /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/
>>
>>>  Alias   /pipermail/ "/usr/local/mailman/archives/public/"
>>>  
>>>
>> Alias  /pipermail/   /usr/local/mailman/archives/public/
>>
>>>  ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/sites/lists.nbirn.net/cgi-bin/"
>>>  
>>>
>>
>>>  ErrorLog /etc/httpd/logs/lists_error_log
>>>  CustomLog /etc/httpd/logs/lists_access_log  combined
>>>
>>> </VirtualHost>
>>>
>>> The funny thing is that if I copy the "create" script from 
>>> /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/ over to my other cgi-bin ScriptAlias 
>>> /var/www/sites/lists.nbirn.net/cgi-bin/ it seems to be invoked, 
>>> although I then get this error in my browser:
>>>
>>>
>>>    Bug in Mailman version 2.1.8
>>>
>>>
>>>      We're sorry, we hit a bug!
>>>
>>> Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing 
>>> of traceback and other system information has been explicitly 
>>> inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the 
>>> Mailman error logs.
>>>
>>> Any help is greatly appreciated!
>>>
>>>
>>>   Thanks, Jason
>>>
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