Hi, I'm still having trouble with installing Mailman. The original
error is as follows:
Mailman CGI error!!!
The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being
stored in your syslog:
Failure to lookup via getgrgid() the group info for group id -1 that
this Mailman CGI wrapper
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said the following on 2/16/2005 8:26 AM:
Hi, I'm still having trouble with installing Mailman. The original
error is as follows:
Mailman CGI error!!!
The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being
stored in your syslog:
Failure to lookup via getgrgid() the
Glenn,
My /etc/group file has the following entry:
mailman:x:41:
I don't have an /etc/groups file on my system. I'm assuming you mean /etc/group.
bash$ id mailman
uid=41(mailman) gid=41(mailman) groups=41(mailman)
(as root)
bash$ ./check_perms -f
No problems found
Hmm... sitll the same
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I'm still having trouble with installing Mailman. The original
error is as follows:
Mailman CGI error!!!
The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being
stored in your syslog:
Failure to lookup via getgrgid() the group info for group id -1 that
The really odd thing is that getgid is apparently returning ~0 (gid's
are unsigned, but the error message prints it as an int, hence the -1).
I just looked at my groups and the only group with a large number is
nfsnobody. Are you trying to run this across NFS? If so I'm guessing
your mount
The default user and group for apache if not set in the apache config file
is -1.
The user and group must be set in the apache config file to be apache
(/etc/httpd/conf/http.conf), you should see lines like this:
User apache
Group apache
If you don't set apache's user and group the cgi scripts
I think we may be getting somewhere because my httpd.conf file is not
consistent with yours. I'm running apache2, and I seem to remember
installing it from source (although I'm not sure about that).
Here's the only User and Group entry in the file:
IfModule !mpm_winnt.c
IfModule !mpm_netware.c
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think we may be getting somewhere because my httpd.conf file is not
consistent with yours. I'm running apache2, and I seem to remember
installing it from source (although I'm not sure about that).
hehe ... I'll bite my tounge :-) :-)
BTW, we've been shipping apache 2 for
Excellent -- that seems to have been the problem.
Now, I have another problem... but I'll create a new post.
Thanks.
jim
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:04:11 -0500, John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think we may be getting somewhere because my httpd.conf file is not
