Re: [Mailman-Users] confusing permission errors, help please

2005-12-20 Thread Hugh Esco
That's a never mind. Turns out I missed the forest while looking at the trees. the mailman/cgi-bin/'s permissions were fine, but the mode on a directory a level or so up were too restrictive to let apache look that deep to read what was inside. a chmod 02775 fixed that and I now can browse

Re: [Mailman-Users] confusing permission errors, help please

2005-12-20 Thread Hugh Esco
It didn't matter. I backed it out. I then replicated my apache.conf vhost definition as gibberish.validdomain.org, where the vhost file for validdomain includes the first working mailman installation. This time, I got a working listinfo page reporting no lists for gibberish.validdomain.or

Re: [Mailman-Users] confusing permission errors, help please

2005-12-20 Thread Mark Sapiro
Hugh Esco wrote: > >As an experiment, I'll try the advise for suEXEC. If it doesn't get me >anywhere, I'll back it out. It doesn't matter whether Apache was compiled with it. If you do NOT have an SuexecUserGroup directive in your virtual host or globally in your Apache configuration, then thi

Re: [Mailman-Users] confusing permission errors, help please

2005-12-20 Thread Hugh Esco
I added the + sign, restarted the apache server and still got the same errors in the borwser and apache log: "Permission denied: access to /mailman/listinfo denied". I'm running gentoo (not SELinux) on this server, while my experience is with debian. A choice made by others, I'm afraid. So

Re: [Mailman-Users] confusing permission errors, help please

2005-12-20 Thread Mark Sapiro
Hugh Esco wrote: > >The apache error log for mumble still says: > > [Tue Dec 20 13:29:44 2005] [error] [client nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn] > (13)Permission denied: access to /mailman/listinfo denied So apparently, adding Options ExecCGI SetHandler cgi-script didn't

Re: [Mailman-Users] confusing permission errors, help please

2005-12-20 Thread Hugh Esco
Mr. Sapiro: Thank you sir, for your help. Yes, I ran check_perms with and without -f as root until I got good results. I've now added the following stanza to my vhost.conf file: Options ExecCGI SetHandler cgi-script I don't know what would have undone that. That stan

Re: [Mailman-Users] confusing permission errors, help please

2005-12-20 Thread Mark Sapiro
Hugh Esco wrote: >I might need to do several instances of mailman before the new year, sailed >right through my first install, but got stuck on the second one. I'm seeking >advice on how to build this. Apparently I will need a distinct instance for >each virtual host of the $prefix heirarchy.

[Mailman-Users] confusing permission errors, help please

2005-12-19 Thread Hugh Esco
I might need to do several instances of mailman before the new year, sailed right through my first install, but got stuck on the second one. I'm seeking advice on how to build this. Apparently I will need a distinct instance for each virtual host of the $prefix heirarchy. I'm wondering though