[Mailman-Users] ? accessing public archives

The information in the 'warning' box at
<http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node9.html>.

Hallo Mark,

Op zaterdag 24 november 2007 schreef Mark Sapiro aan
lists.mailman-users at duinheks.xs4al:
MS> The information in the 'warning' box at
MS> <http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node9.html>.

This link cannot be found :(
But I think I found what you mean :)

I now configured Mailman with
--prefix=/opt/mailman --with-mail-gid=mailman --with-cgi-gid=www
and all seems to work.
A bit strange, because if I read the entry for --with-cgi-gid
correctly, www should be taken as default.

Another thing I don't understand is this: originally I configure
with
--prefix=/opt/mailman --with-mail-gid=bbs --with-cgi-gid=www
but then Mailman complained because the mail server (postfix) was
running with group mailman instead of bbs.
But postfix does not belong to group mailman...

Groeten,

Hans.

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It works for me, but there are mirrors at
<http://mailman.sf.net/mailman-install/node9.html> and
<http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/node9.html>.

Also, since you are apparently installing from source, it is in the
source directory at admin/www/mailman-install/node9.html.


The warning box I refer to talks about the necessity for the web server
to have search (x) permission on the archives/private directory,
either by that directory being world searchable or owned by the web
server user. configure and make install will create this directory
world searchable (o+x) and owned by the user that ran make install
(normally root), but bin/check_perms will warn you about this. If you
then remove the world searchable (o-x) without changing the owner (but
not the group), then you can't access public archives.


Postfix runs a pipe as the user that owns the aliases file in which the
pipe is found.