I maintain a few Majordomo based mailing lists. Some of my users have complained about the cryptic nature of interacting w/Majordomo.
As a result, I've been tinkering w/MailServ v4.4 for ~2mths. Most GUI front-ends are Perl based. There aren't any user mailiing list for users who were having problems configuring the pkg. So, I figured I'd send a note asking for assistance. I imagine that I have missed something fairly obvious. Hopefully, my questions are intelligible ;) Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. I thank you in advance for your time. Problem: I am unable to run/administrate Mailserv script via browser. Per the installation directions that were included in the tarball, I set up a simple form. Here is what I've done thus far: /* begin mserv.html */ <html> <head> <title>TEST</title></head> <body> <form method="POST" action="/cgi-bin/MailServ/majordomo" TARGET="_blank"> <input type="SUBMIT" value="nerds"> <input type="HIDDEN" name="to" value="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> <input type="HIDDEN" name="list" value="nerds"> </form> </body></html> /* end mserv.html*/ You can see the output here -> http://bencarsonscholars.com/cgi-bin/MailServ/mserv.html I consistently receive Internal Server Error 500. Already checked the permissions in my /cgi-bin/ directory. I can run other perl scripts w/o issue. Additionally, I can't seem to run majordomo script from the browser, it appears that the environment variable 'HTTP_REFERER' is not being set properly. The domain below is a virtual domain on a RedHat box. See the output here -> http://bencarsonscholars.com/cgi-bin/MailServ/majordomo However, after checking syntax with the Perl interpreter, the 'majordomo' the syntax reads OK. Below is the output of the modifed 'Mailserv' script. I renamed the script 'majordomo'. *********************************************** $perl -c majordomo 2&> script.out ********************************************** Useless use of hash element in void context at majordomo line 382. Use of $* is deprecated at majordomo line 520. Use of implicit split to @_ is deprecated at majordomo line 587. Useless use of hash element in void context at majordomo line 1004. \1 better written as $1 at majordomo line 1338. Name "config::noList" used only once: possible typo at majordomo line 459. Name "config::name" used only once: possible typo at majordomo line 227. Name "config::noBody" used only once: possible typo at majordomo line 955. majordomo syntax OK /* end of script.out */ Second: I ran the script from install dir. './majordomo' /* begin output of ./majordomo snippet */ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/mainwebsite_cgi/MailServ$more script.test Content-type: text/html <!-- This source generated by the majordomo script --> <!-- Debug information: Form input: from = '' Process environment: BASH_ENV = '/home/bcls/.bashrc' HISTSIZE = '1000' HOME = '/home/bcls' HOSTNAME = 'bencarsonscholars.com' HOSTTYPE = 'i386' INPUTRC = '/etc/inputrc' LOGNAME = 'bcls' MACHTYPE = 'i386-redhat-linux-gnu' MAIL = '/var/spool/mail/bcls' OLDPWD = '/home/bcls/mainwebsite_cgi/MailServ/config' OSTYPE = 'linux-gnu' PATH = '/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/bcls/bin' PWD = '/home/bcls/mainwebsite_cgi/MailServ' SHELL = '/bin/bash' SHLVL = '1' SSH_TTY = '/dev/pts/0' TERM = 'xterm' USER = 'bcls' USERNAME = '' _ = './majordomo' --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>MailServ by Patrick Fitzgerald</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <!-- BEGIN header --> <TABLE WIDTH=100% BORDER=4> <TR> <TH ALIGN=left WIDTH=100%> <A HREF="http://csicop.org/~fitz/www/mailserv/";>MailServ</A> for Majordomo mailing lists </TH> /* end ./majordomo output snippet */ I also took a look at the httpd error logs Turning on the the #!/usr/bin/perl -w flag generates these warnings /* begin error log output */ Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at majordomo line 1270. Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at majordomo line 1271. Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at majordomo line 1272. Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at majordomo line 1273. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at majordomo line 1116. Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at majordomo line 304. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at majordomo line 310. failed to open log file fopen: Permission denied [Fri Nov 28 09:46:01 2003] [error] [client 68.41.85.195] Premature end of script headers: /home/virtual/site46/fst/var/www/cgi-bin/MailServ/mserv.html /* end of error log output */ Below is my modified majordomo script. Per the install instructions, I renamed the Mailserv script to 'majordomo'. /* begin majordomo script snippet */ #!/usr/bin/perl -w ## $Id: mailserv,v 3.29 2002/10/23 00:51:32 fitz Exp $ ## ## MailServ - displays and processes forms for mailing list manager commands ## Copyright (C) 1996,1997 Patrick Fitzgerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ## See end of file for GNU Public License information. ## ## Complete documentation is provided at the following URL: ## http://csicop.org/~fitz/www/mailserv/ # modified 10/25/03 -AG # use strict; # use CGI; # $CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS = 1; # $CGI::POST_MAX = 102_400; # 100 KB # my $q = new CGI; # end modification # Version of MailServ # logfile # If you want to log the use of MailServ on your system, # (useful for hunting down certain problems) # specify the filename here. If MailServ cannot write # the file, it just ignores it and continues. $logfile = "/var/www/cgi-bin/MailServ/error/"; @referrer_regexp = ( 'www\.bencarsonscholars\.com' ); /* end of majordomo script snippet */ AG -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
