[CLUE-Tech] help with GNU mailman - displaying jibberish

[Kevin Fenzi]

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>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Harris <coronadh at coronasolutions.com> writes:

Dan> I've been running GNU's mailman on a Debian (woody) server for a
Dan> year or so.  I'm happy to say I haven't needed to touch the admin
Dan> interface once since I originally set it up.  However, the need
Dan> has come about for me to do it and I'm running into some very
Dan> strange problems.  It looks like when apache ( 1.3.26 + mod_perl
Dan> ) tries to exec one of the cgi programs, it shows whats at the
Dan> following URL ( it's a bunch of garbage ascii ):

Dan> http://coronasolutions.com/cgi-bin/mailman/admin

Dan> However, when I run them from command-line ( su'd ), they appear
Dan> to spit out the correct HTML to stdout. The 'admin' executable
Dan> looks like this:

Dan> -rwxr-sr-x 1 root list 5584 Sep 18 2002 admin

Dan> and 'ldd' output looks like this:

Dan> libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40019000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 =>
Dan> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

Dan> I wonder if something happened during a software update that
Dan> broke it?  Is this a suid problem?  I'm confused..

Two possible things to check:

- - Do you have that partition mounted 'nosuid'? look in /etc/fstab

- - Do you have a line like: 
ScriptAlias /mailman/ /var/mailman/cgi-bin/

That tells apache to treat everything in there as a script and run
it. Otherwise it might just spew the binary to the browser, as you are
seeing. 

Dan> Thanks for any help.

Dan> -Dan

kevin
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