mailman-2.1.14_2 and _3, CGI wrapper Error

Bernt Hansson bernt at bah.homeip.net
Wed Jun 15 11:08:38 UTC 2011


2011-06-15 12:48, n dhert skrev:
> Yesterday morning I upgraded mailman-2.1.14_1 to 2.1.14_2
>
> Since then none of my mailings lists (that worked for years) works.
> http://myserver.mysubdom.mydom/mailman/listinfo
> (or any other mailman command) gives
>
> 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 "@CGI_GROUP@", but
> the system's web server executed the CGI script as
> group "www".  Try tweaking the web server to run the
> script as group "@CGI_GROUP@", or re-run configure,
> providing the command line option `--with-cgi-gid=www'.
>
> I know there is an entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING
> 20110613:
>    AFFECTS: users of mail/mailman with postfix
>    AUTHOR: crees at FreeBSD.org
>    The mailman port has for some time specified the incorrect group when
>    using with Postfix, as reported in ports/142000. The group for mailman
>    is now nobody if compiled with Postfix. Be prepared to make appropriate
>    adjustments if you have compensated for this bug in the past.
> But I don't use postfix, I Use sendmail
>
> I saw there today mailman-2.1.14_3, so I portupgraded to that version and
> also did
> # /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl stop
> # /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl start
>
> but this doesn't help.

Have you tried /etc/mail/make restart to restart sendmail?


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