Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interface saves no settings or info!

2002-02-21 Thread Scott Spence
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Scott Spence wrote: > > > This INSTALL file *MUST* be wrong - surely?? > > They are misleading... i.e. Misname a feature of the ./configure utility? - very misleading! ;-) > > > > Permission denied: '/var/l

[Mailman-Users] Re: owner of config.db

2002-02-21 Thread Scott Spence
Hi Gerald, I wish I could say that is my solution - I am still having problems and am sure it is to do with the httpd or python binary not running on a suid partition - therefore I am going to ask for further info from the list and if required make changes later (when I am closer to the machine)

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interface saves no settings or info!

2002-02-21 Thread Scott Spence
I got --with-ownername and --with-ownergroup from the INSTALL file: --8<--- - Add a new user called `mailman'. Typically this is added to your /etc/passwd file. If username `mailman' is already in use, choose something else unique and see the --with-ownername fla

Re: [Mailman-Users] More problems

2002-02-21 Thread Scott Spence
Could be a permissions problem (I know these well!) check your webserver and mail logs too!! Scott On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Greg Rees wrote: > > Yes, I ran check_perms and it reported "no problems found" > > The /home/mailman/logs/error are clean (empty). No problems there. > > > On Thu, 21 Feb 2002

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interfase saves no settings or info!

2002-02-20 Thread Scott Spence
I think this could be a case of P3P being implemented. http://www.w3.org/P3P/p3pfaq.html http://www.w3.org/P3P/ don't you? Scott On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:27:08PM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: > > This is definitely a Frequently Asked Question... Undou

Re: [Mailman-Users] owner of config.db is changing to wwwrun

2002-02-20 Thread Scott Spence
Hi Gerald, I too am having the same problem - you may be interested in the thread: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2002-February/017718.html or my origional posting that has all the details: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2002-February/017665.html After you have

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interface saves no settings or info!

2002-02-19 Thread Scott Spence
. 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 wh

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interface saves no settings or info!

2002-02-19 Thread Scott Spence
an fstab expert but could THIS be my problem? the python executables likely reside here (as does apache) but not the mailman scripts - what do you think? perhaps "defaults" (that includes suid) may be a better option.. cheers scott On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Ashley M. Kirchner wrot

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interface saves no settings or info!

2002-02-19 Thread Scott Spence
group - and the mailman group is retained resulting in nobody:mailman? Thanks for your help with this - I have nearly no hair left! Scott On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Scott Spence wrote: > > > as a matter of interest what happens to the permissions once the cron j

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interface saves no settings or info!

2002-02-19 Thread Scott Spence
Ted, as a matter of interest what happens to the permissions once the cron job runs - are they changed to the cron jobs permissions? (I would expect cron to be run as mailman:mailman) This may help me trouble shoot a problem I have been happening where the permissions are changing to be mail:mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] Is there a way to search archives?

2002-02-18 Thread Scott Spence
Hi Jeffrey, Take a look at this thread: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2001-October/014447.html The patch uses htdig and is on sourgeforge I think this should *either* be an included feature (it is on the wishlist) or, in the meantime, in the FAQ doc Cheers Scott On Mon, 18

[Mailman-Users] Permission problems during new setup ([Errno 13] Permission denied)

2002-02-18 Thread Scott Spence
Hi all Python/Mailman experts, I am having problems setting up Mailman (1.1 and 2.05, 2.08 and 2.07) My problem seems to revolve around permissions. I configured mailman with the following command line (as suggested by the exim-howto): ./configure --with-mail-gid=8 --with-cgi-gid=65534 --prefix=