But, you see, I did use those cgi-gid and mail-gid flags: ./configure --with-mail-gid=8 --with-cgi-gid=65534 --prefix=/var/lib/mailman --with-ownername=mail --with-ownergroup=mail --prefix=/var/lib/mailman --with-username=mail --host=noggon.com --with-groupname=mail
And, yes I just checked that 8 is the guid mail and 65534 is the guid nogroup. The mail:mail (not mailman:mailman) setup is due to following the exim with mailman howto (debian sets up exim to run as mail:mail NOT exim:exim). Quote (from mailman README.EXIM aka mailman exim howto): # home dir for mailman MAILMAN_HOME=/home/mailman # wrapper script for mailman MAILMAN_WRAP=MAILMAN_HOME/mail/wrapper # user and group for mailman MAILMAN_UID=exim MAILMAN_GID=exim What do you think? This is why I have acted so desperate to look at the fstab file.. ~:-( - i.e. one hair left! scott On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Scott Spence wrote: > > > How can a webserver running as nobody:nogroup modify config.db once it > > becomes owned by mail:mail? .. it could (I suppose) if nobody somehow also > > run under group mail but this _can't_ be right. > > Remember when you first configured mailman and compiled it? You were supposed >to tell it > what your cgi-gid is, and your mail-gid. This is where those two come into play. >They play > together, mailman allows the webserver to touch its files, and when done, reverts it >back. > > > > I did try your idea that all files should be owned by mail:mail and I just > > got the bug page (why has Printing of traceback and other system > > information has been explicitly inhibited?) and in the error file: > > Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/lists/test/config.db' > > Actually, the whole thing should be owned by mailman, not mail. After all, it's >mailman > that runs the cron tasks, and it's mailman that does all the processing of lists >administrivia. > > Don't mess with your fstab. Unless you're prepared to yank a few more hairs out >of your > head. :) fstab is a system wide setting that doesn't affect (adversely enough) any >function of > how a program runs or doesn't. If fstab is setup to only allow read, or write on a >device, > you'd be having way more problems that just mailman not running. > > -- > W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. > +-------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . 303.442.6410 x130 > IT Director / SysAdmin / WebSmith . 800.441.3873 x130 > Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc. . 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6 > http://www.pcraft.com ..... . . . Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A. > > > > Scott Mobile: +34 65 337 8573 Fiona Mobile: +34 65 337 8574 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users