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<FONT FACE="MS Shell Dlg" DEFAULT="FACE"><FONT SIZE="1" POINTSIZE="8" DEFAULT="SIZE">Okay - I kept pounding at it, and somehow now it works (this is after a full afternoon and two reinstalls) with Apache. Now to see about taking care of the Postfix problem - even with the solution mentioned in the install instructions, I'm still getting: <BR>
<FONT COLOR=000000 DEFAULT="COLOR"> The Postfix program<BR>
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<<FONT COLOR=0000ff><U>test-request@taz.shultzinfosystems.com<FONT COLOR=000000 DEFAULT="COLOR"></U>>: Command died with status 2:<BR>
"/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test". Command output: Failure to exec<BR>
script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 99. (Reconfigure to take 99?)<BR>
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12 is the gid for "mail" (I configured --with-mail-gid=12) and 99 is "nobody" (--with-cgi-gid=99). <BR>
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On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 21:35:09 -0700, Jeff Shultz wrote:<BR>
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>Okay, I'm still in the neophyte category when it comes to most things on Linux. I'm running Mandrake 7.1 (with a lot of <BR>
>updates), Apache 1.3.x (probably .9 - whatever came with Mandrake 7.1), postfix, and a few other odds and ends. This <BR>
>machine is masqueraded to the internet, with the firewall portmapping anything that needs to get through. HTTP isn't one <BR>
>of them -- my outside webserver is run on another box entirely. <BR>
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>I'm installing Mailman for my own use - I don't need a web interface, but that seems to be the only way things go with <BR>
>mailing lists. <BR>
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>Right now I'm trying to get Apache to allow me access to the cgi-bin stuff to run Mailman with. I've got the ScriptAlias <BR>
>/mailman/ /home/mailman/cgi-bin/ line in the httpd.conf file (I've rebooted the machine several times, so I know it's <BR>
>taken -- I'm having a serious mental block... what is the command in Linux to get a process like httpd to stop and restart, <BR>
>rereading it's conf file?). I've added the following lines to httpd.conf:<BR>
><Directory /home/mailman/cgi-bin><BR>
>Options ExecCgi FollowSymlinks<BR>
>AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Indexes Limit Options<BR>
>order allow,deny<BR>
>allow from all<BR>
></Directory> <BR>
>The above was basically copied intact from another cgi-bin directory entry (nothing in there to test, either). <BR>
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>But it keeps telling me that http://taz.shultzinfosystems.com:8080/mailman/ (and anything after this) is "Forbidden You <BR>
>don't have permission to access /mailman(etc) on this server" <BR>
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>I was able to send out a message with the newlist command... so that part works. <BR>
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>Any ideas? This is getting really frustrating.<BR>
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>Jeff Shultz<BR>
>Shultz Infosystems<BR>
>www.shultzinfosystems.com<BR>
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