[Mailman-Users] problems with gid when installing

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value.net
Sat Jan 20 18:02:06 CET 2007


Peter Coolen wrote:
>  
> When i want to go to the page www.domain.tld/mailman/create, I get the error
> below:
>  
> Mailman CGI error!!!
> %s
> --with-cgi-gidwebCGI--with-mail-gidmail-SThe Mailman CGI wrapper encountered
> a fatal error. This entry is being stored in your syslog:Group mismatch
> error. Mailman expected the %s wrapper script to be executed as group "%s",
> but the system's %s server executed the %s script as group "%s". Try
> tweaking the %s server to run the script as group "%s", or re-run configure,
> providing the command line option `%s=%s'.Failure to find group name for GID
> %d. Mailman expected the %s wrapper to be executed as group "%s", but the
> system's %s server executed the wrapper as GID %d for which the name could
> not be found. Try adding GID %d to your system as "%s", or tweak your %s
> server to run the wrapper as group "%s".nobodycreateMailman cgi-wrapper
> (create)driverÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ$ Ð… 


There is something wrong with your web server configuration. Instead of 
executing Mailman's cgi-bin/create wrapper and serving it's output, the 
web server is serving the wrapper file as text.

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