bad url specification & internal errors

[Robert Rust]

I'm trying to get mailman installed and working on Solaris 10 using the
mailman 2.0.12 package from blastwave and coolstack's apache.  The
problem I'm encountering is that after I create a list, when I try to go
to the admin page for it, I get an error in the page "Bad URL
Specification".

My listinfo page generates an internal server error which shows up in
the apache logs as follows:
(22)Invalid argument: exec of '/apps/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo' failed

The 'create' page actually shows up but doesn't work due to permission
issues (I don't think I'm inclined to remove it anyway since I don't
want lists created via the web).

How can I solve these?  I'm not finding much in the line of information
on what's wrong.

-Robert
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[Mark Sapiro-3]

Robert Rust wrote:

>I'm trying to get mailman installed and working on Solaris 10 using the
>mailman 2.0.12 package from blastwave and coolstack's apache.  The
>problem I'm encountering is that after I create a list, when I try to go
>to the admin page for it, I get an error in the page "Bad URL
>Specification".


What URL are you using for the admin page?

If "Bad URL Specification" comes from Mailman, it comes from going to
the create page with a URL like
http://www.example.com/mailman/create/junk (i.e. with something extra
after create). It can also come from the rmlist CGI if the url is just
http://www.example.com/mailman/rmlist/ without a list name. Those are
the only two CGI scripts in standard Mailman that issue that message.


>My listinfo page generates an internal server error which shows up in
>the apache logs as follows:
>(22)Invalid argument: exec of '/apps/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo' failed


That's not too helpful. What do you get if you do

sudo -u xxx /apps/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo

where xxx is the user that your web server invokes CGIs as.  - maybe
apache or www or ?

A quick google for "Invalid argument: exec of" seems to indicate an
apache problem.

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