From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 29 18:53:00 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 F308416A41F for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:52:59 +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 3E06243D45 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:52:59 +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 j7TIqvDx040451; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:52:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j7TIquR3040450; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:52:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:52:56 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Greg Barniskis Message-ID: <20050829185256.GB40278@thought.org> References: <20050829172012.GA8261@thought.org> <200508291409.52670.kellers@njit.edu> <4313509A.2030100@scls.lib.wi.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4313509A.2030100@scls.lib.wi.us> 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 , Tim Kellers , 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 18:53:00 -0000 On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 01:14:50PM -0500, Greg Barniskis wrote: > 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. > [snip] > > > >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 > > Even with correct permissions, I think you get 403 if you ask for > /mailman/ by itself, unless your Apache config allows automatic > directory indexing, which of course it ought not on cgi-bin stuff. > > Try accessing some /mailman/, e.g. /mailman/listinfo, and > not just /mailman/ by itself. > > -- > Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator > South Central Library System (SCLS) > Library Interchange Network (LINK) > , (608) 266-6348 YES! This was the first time I've *not* tryed "/mailman///" but I certainly didn't expect the 403 err. Thanks much, both of you. One more thing that may save me more time: Which text and html files can I edit (carefully), to insert the instruvtions to "Unsubscribe" by sending a simple email? The -questions list has this as a footer. My users/subscribers will be sharp, but probably not geek-savvy. thanks again, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix