Topic: Mailman CGI error

[pradeepprakhar]

Mailman CGI error!!!
The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being stored in your syslog:
Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the CGI
wrapper script to be executed as group "apache", but
the system's web server executed the CGI script as
group "mailman". Try tweaking the web server to run the
script as group "apache", or re-run configure,
providing the command line option `--with-cgi-gid=mailman'.



I checked the gid of apache and mailman is the member of apache.


[root@host]# su apache
bash-4.1$ id
uid=48(apache) gid=48(apache) groups=48(apache)
bash-4.1$ python
Python 2.6.9 (unknown, Sep 13 2014, 00:25:11)
[GCC 4.8.2 20140120 (Red Hat 4.8.2-16)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import grp, os, sys
>>> os.getgid()
48
>>> grp.getgrgid(os.getgid())
grp.struct_group(gr_name='apache', gr_passwd='x', gr_gid=48, gr_mem=['mailman'])
>>>


There are the files in /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/

ls -ll /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/
total 312
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 admin
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 admindb
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 confirm
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 create
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 edithtml
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 htdig
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 listinfo
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 mmsearch
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 options
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 private
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 rmlist
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 roster
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 subscribe


Thanks
Pradeep

[James Blond]

You may change the the owner in /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/

[pradeepprakhar]

Hi James,

When I changed the permission of mmsearch in /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/ , I got below error as a Bug.

from
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 mmsearch
To
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root apache 23096 Jan 8 02:30 mmsearch

And tried to access http://maymailman.net/mailman/mmsearch/testlist ( just when I do an archive search)

“Bug in Mailman version 2.1.12

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.

“

[James Blond]