From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 29 18:40:53 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3298116A41F for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:40:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76DC543D46 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:40:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j7TIenmo040380; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:40:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j7TIemuX040379; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:40:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:40:48 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Tim Kellers Message-ID: <20050829184048.GA40278@thought.org> References: <20050829172012.GA8261@thought.org> <200508291409.52670.kellers@njit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200508291409.52670.kellers@njit.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 19 years of service to the Unix community Cc: Gary Kline , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mailman: 403: browser access forbidden. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:40:53 -0000 On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 02:09:51PM -0400, Tim Kellers wrote: > > > On Monday 29 August 2005 01:20 pm, Gary Kline wrote: > > I first set up mailman (with its web automation) last > > December. When I recently tried to send a test message > > to my list, mailman spitout the old "reset configure with > > daemon" gid. Which failed. Eventually I reinstalled from > > scratch. Now, using lynx and "www.thought.org/mainman" > > I'm getting: > > > > > > Forbidden > > > > You don't have permission to access /mailman/ on this server. > > > > > > Without resubbing to the mailman list, does anybody know > > what I need to do to resolve this? Yes, mailman:: 91:91 > > is a nologin acct. I've followed everything, including > > the FreeBSD readme in the /usr/local/share/doc/mailman > > directory. > > > > thanks, > > > > gary > > > > PS: I have googled around for "mailman, 403, freebsd" > > without results. :-| > > > Do you have: ScriptAlias /mailman "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin" > > defined in httpd.conf? I think I changed the "/mailman" to "/mailman/" as per the docs. ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin" Yep. I'll try without ad restart everything. Nope: still get the 403.... > > Does /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin have permissions that look like this? > > # ls -la /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin > total 200 > drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Apr 25 14:17 . > drwxrwsr-x 20 mailman mailman 512 Apr 25 14:16 .. > -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 17730 Apr 25 14:17 admin > -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 17734 Apr 25 14:17 admindb > > Tim drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Aug 28 23:53 . drwxrwsr-x 20 mailman mailman 512 Aug 28 23:51 .. -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 13197 Aug 28 23:53 admin gary PS: BTW, I created a "test" list anf mailman sent the ACK ... by there was no "admin/test" ... -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix