I started having problems after some disk issues and some moving of various parts of my current mailman installation. For the most part everything is working again except for this one thing: when a user goes to the web and attempts to subscribe, they get the "we're sorry, we hit a bug" page.
After seeing the "Permission Denied" error in the traceback, i tried 'chmod g+w' on pending_subscriptions.db and making the GID on pending_subscriptions.db 'apache' instead of 'mailman' and the problem went away. Given that we know it is a problem with who the cgi is executing as -and I know that bin/check_perms tells me that 'apache' is unexpected for the GID on that file- how would i go about getting this working "correctly" (i.e. with mailman:mailman chown on pending_subscription.db)? Any advice is much appretiated...thanks. The output to logs/error looks like this: Dec 30 13:55:57 2003 admin(30998): @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ admin(30998): [----- Mailman Version: 2.0.13 -----] admin(30998): [----- Traceback ------] admin(30998): Traceback (most recent call last): admin(30998): File "/mailman-2.0.13/scripts/driver", line 96, in run_main admin(30998): main() admin(30998): File "../Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py", line 76, in main admin(30998): process_form(mlist, doc) admin(30998): File "../Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py", line 187, in process_form admin(30998): mlist.AddMember(email, pw, digest, remote) admin(30998): File "/mailman-2.0.13/Mailman/MailList.py", line 983, in AddMember admin(30998): cookie = Pending().new(name, password, digest) admin(30998): File "../Mailman/Pending.py", line 74, in new admin(30998): self.__save(db) admin(30998): File "../Mailman/Pending.py", line 111, in __save admin(30998): fp = open(self.db_path, "w") admin(30998): IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/mailman/data/pending_subscriptions.db' admin(30998): [----- Python Information -----] admin(30998): sys.version = 2.2.1 (#1, Apr 9 2002, 13:10:27) [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)] admin(30998): sys.executable = /usr/bin/python2 admin(30998): sys.prefix = /usr admin(30998): sys.exec_prefix= /usr admin(30998): sys.path = /usr admin(30998): sys.platform = linux2 admin(30998): [----- Environment Variables -----] admin(30998): HTTP_ACCEPT: */* admin(30998): CONTENT_TYPE: application/x-www-form-urlencoded admin(30998): HTTP_REFERER: http://mailman.coafes.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/sustag admin(30998): SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.12 OpenSSL/0.9.6b DAV/1.0.2 PHP/4.1.2 mod_perl/1.26 admin(30998): PYTHONPATH: /mailman-2.0.13 admin(30998): SCRIPT_FILENAME: /mailman/cgi-bin/subscribe admin(30998): SERVER_ADMIN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] admin(30998): SCRIPT_NAME: /mailman/subscribe admin(30998): SERVER_SIGNATURE: <ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.27 Server at monolith.coafes.umn.edu Port 80</ADDRESS> admin(30998): REQUEST_METHOD: POST admin(30998): HTTP_HOST: mailman.coafes.umn.edu admin(30998): PATH_INFO: /sustag admin(30998): SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1 admin(30998): QUERY_STRING: admin(30998): REQUEST_URI: /mailman/subscribe/sustag admin(30998): CONTENT_LENGTH: 72 admin(30998): HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/106.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/100.1 admin(30998): HTTP_CONNECTION: close admin(30998): HTTP_COOKIE: sustag:admin=2802000000699db7f13f732800000030383539333331633561633736313135393238356635316535393763643531313939656365323739 admin(30998): SERVER_NAME: monolith.coafes.umn.edu admin(30998): REMOTE_ADDR: 160.94.212.129 admin(30998): REMOTE_PORT: 53016 admin(30998): HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-us, ja;q=0.62, de-de;q=0.93, de;q=0.90, fr-fr;q=0.86, fr;q=0.83, nl-nl;q=0.79, nl;q=0.76, it-it;q=0.72, it;q=0.69, ja-jp;q=0.66, en;q=0.97, es-es;q=0.$ admin(30998): PATH_TRANSLATED: /var/www/html/sustag admin(30998): SERVER_PORT: 80 admin(30998): GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1 admin(30998): REMOTE_HOST: c212-129.dhcp.umn.edu admin(30998): HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflate;q=1.0, identity;q=0.5, *;q=0 admin(30998): SERVER_ADDR: 134.84.89.152 admin(30998): DOCUMENT_ROOT: /var/www/html -- _______________________________________________ Mike Neuharth ADCS Technology Specialist http://www.umn.edu/adcs =============================================== E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ "What is important, it seems to me, is not so much to defend a culture whose existence has never kept a man from going hungry, as to extract, from what is called culture, ideas whose compelling force is identical with that of hunger." -Antonin Artaud ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
