VB: SV: SV: SV: SV: SV: VB: After upgrading to RH8 neomail wont work!

"Mikael Karmalm" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.neomail.general
Message-ID <000301c26e9c$c23f7f50$920914ac@vengeance>
Hi thanx for your help

[root@spectre neomail-1.25]# ls -la /var/www/cgi-bin/
total 360
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Oct  8 09:14 .
drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         4096 Oct  7 19:15 ..
-rwxr-sr-x    1 root     mail       120429 Oct  8 09:14 neomail.pl
-rwxr-sr-x    1 root     mail        46792 Oct  8 09:14 neomail-prefs.pl


[root@spectre neomail-1.25]# ls -la /var
total 128
drwxr-xr-x   29 root     root         4096 Oct  7 19:18 .
drwxr-xr-x   19 root     root         4096 Oct  7 19:09 ..
drwxr-xr-x    2 pcap     pcap         4096 Oct  5 18:11 arpwatch
drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root         4096 Oct  5 18:11 cache
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Aug  5  1998 db
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Oct  5 17:57 empty
drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         4096 Jun 23 15:50 ftp
drwxr-x---    2 gdm      gdm          4096 Oct  7 19:10 gdm
drwxr-xr-x   17 root     root         4096 Oct  5 18:10 lib
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Feb  6  1996 local
drwxrwxr-x    3 root     lock         4096 Oct  7 19:10 lock
drwxr-xr-x    9 root     root         4096 Oct  7 19:09 log
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        16384 Jun 16  2001 lost+found
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           10 Oct  5 17:54 mail ->
spool/mail
drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         4096 Jan 18  2002 man
drwxr-xr-x    2 named    named        4096 Oct  7 09:52 named
drwxrwx---    6 root     mail         4096 Oct  7 19:18 neo
drwxrwx---    6 root     mail         4096 Oct  8 09:14 neomail
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Feb  6  1996 nis
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Apr 13  2000 opt
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Feb  6  1996 preserve
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root         4096 Oct  7 19:13 run
drwxr-xr-x  164 root     root         4096 Oct  7 19:05 share
drwxr-xr-x   14 root     root         4096 Oct  5 17:58
spool[root@spectre neomail-1.25]# ls -la /var/neomail/
total 1484
drwxrwx---    6 root     mail         4096 Oct  8 09:14 .
drwxr-xr-x   29 root     root         4096 Oct  7 19:18 ..
-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root          710 Oct  8 09:14 checklogin.pl
-rw-rw----    1 root     apache         13 Oct  5 15:00
isa-session-0.777091167009534
-rw-rw----    1 root     apache         13 Dec 13  2001
josefin-session-1.24874441453926e-06
drwxr-x---    2 root     mail         4096 Jun 20  2001 lang
-rwxr-x---    1 root     mail         7407 Oct  8 09:14 neomail.conf
-rwxr-x---    1 root     root         7432 Jun 20  2001 neomail.conf~
-rw-rw----    1 root     mail      1461774 Oct  5 15:00 neomail.log
drwxr-x---    2 root     mail         4096 Jun 20  2001 styles
drwxr-x---   23 root     mail         4096 Jun 20  2001 templates
drwxrwx---   20 root     mail         4096 Sep  3 10:48 users
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Jan 18  2002 state
drwxrwxrwt    2 root     root         4096 Oct  7 19:15 tmp
drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Jun 24 02:42 tux
drwx------    2 root     bin          4096 Sep 23 11:02 webmin
drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         4096 Oct  7 19:15 www
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Oct  5 18:10 yp



-----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
Fran: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] For Torsten Mueller
Skickat: den 7 oktober 2002 22:22
Till: [email protected]
Amne: Re: SV: SV: SV: SV: SV: VB: [Neomail-users] After upgrading to RH8
neomail wont work!


Give us the output of the commands
ls -la /pathtoyourcgi/bin/withneomail
ls -la /var/
ls -la /var/neomail/

Torsten

ls -la of the cgi-bin dir and /var/neomail

Mikael Karmalm schrieb:
> 
> Sorry about my lack of expertise ;)
> How do I do that and what's the correct value?
> 
> /M
> 
> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Fran: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] For Andy Herrero
> Skickat: den 7 oktober 2002 16:12
> Till: [email protected]
> Amne: Re: SV: SV: SV: SV: VB: [Neomail-users] After upgrading to RH8
> neomail wont work!
> 
> I managed to replicate this behavior when the first script doesn't
have
> access to the second (which it "requires" and is found in the path).
> Could
> this (inspite of the suid-nature of neomail) be a matter of
> FS-permissions?
> 
> Double-check the setuid-bit on neomail.pl!
> 
> -- Andy
> 
> --On den 7 oktober 2002 15:32 +0200 Mikael Karmalm <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> >
> > That?s the funny part about that error message neommail.conf is in
> > /var/neomail/
> >
> > /M
> >
> > -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> > Fran: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]] For Andy Herrero
> > Skickat: den 7 oktober 2002 15:25
> > Till: [email protected]
> > Amne: Re: SV: SV: SV: VB: [Neomail-users] After upgrading to RH8
> neomail
> > wont work!
> >
> >
> > Make sure that the directory specified in the beginning of
neomail.pl
> > is the directory in which neomail.conf resides.
> >
> > According to the output of apache, the installation program has
> inserted
> > the path "/var/neomail" to your neomail.pl. Isn't neomail.conf
located
> > in that directory?
> >
> > The line to which I'm referring (line 23 in my neomail.pl) looks
like
> > this:
> > ---cut---
> > push (@INC, '/var/neomail');
> > ---cut---
> >
> > What this does is it adds /var/neomail to the include-path array
which
> > perl uses to find external modules and scripts.
> >
> > With kind regards,
> >
> > -- Andy
> >
> > PS. Lycka till :)
> >
> > --On den 7 oktober 2002 13:58 +0200 Mikael Karmalm <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi again!
> >>
> >> Thaks for that, I have now installed that module and reinstalled
> >> neomail, this time I got no error message.
> >> But still I have the sme problem!
> >>
> >>
> >> [Mon Oct 07 13:55:21 2002] [error] [client 212.73.0.237] [Mon Oct
7
> >> 13:55:21 2002] neomail.pl: Can't locate neomail.conf in @INC (@INC
> >> contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i686-linux
> >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0
> >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux
> >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
> >> /var/neomail) at /var/www/cgi-bin/neomail.pl line 37., referer:
> >> http://www.cpf.nu/menu.htm
> >>
> >> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> >> Fran: [email protected]
> >> [mailto:[email protected]] For Torsten
> Mueller
> >> Skickat: den 7 oktober 2002 10:42
> >> Till: [email protected]
> >> Amne: Re: SV: SV: VB: [Neomail-users] After upgrading to RH8
neomail
> >> wont work!
> >>
> >>
> >> Look in the message archive for the thread
> >> "no suidperl on 5.6.1" from august 2002
> >>
> >> Same problem, he founds a rpm.
> >>
> >> Torsten
> >>
> >> Mikael Karmalm schrieb:
> >>>
> >>> Where do I find suidperl, and how do I install it?
> >>>
> >>> I cant find it.
> >>>
> >>> /M
> >>>
> >>> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> >>> Fran: [email protected]
> >>> [mailto:[email protected]] For Torsten
> > Mueller
> >>> Skickat: den 7 oktober 2002 02:26
> >>> Till: [email protected]
> >>> Amne: Re: SV: VB: [Neomail-users] After upgrading to RH8 neomail
> wont
> >>> work!
> >>>
> >>> Yes, this could be a problem.
> >>> Neomail needs direct access to the mail spool files
> >>> of the users.
> >>> If neomail runs as your apache user, it haven't.
> >>> That's why neomail needs to change it's identity or better
> >>> gets more rights via suidperl to access the mail spools.
> >>>
> >>> Torsten
> >>>
> >>> Mikael Karmalm schrieb:
> >>> >
> >>> > Hi again!
> >>> >
> >>> > When I tried to reinstall neomail it looks like this, look at
the
> >>> > warning could this be my problem?
> >>> > I can run the neomail.pl from shell but not from a browser.
> >>> >
> >>> > **********************************
> >>> > ****** COMPATIBILITY CHECKS ******
> >>> > **********************************
> >>> >
> >>> > IF ANY OF THESE CHECKS FAIL, INSTALLATION WILL NOT CONTINUE.
> >>> > PLEASE INSTALL THE APPROPRIATE DBM LIBRARY OR MODULE AND TRY
> AGAIN.
> >>> >
> >>> > Checking for installation of Berkely DB or GNU DB capability...
> >>> > Looks OK.
> >>> > Checking for up-to-date CGI.pm...
> >>> > Looks OK.
> >>> > Checking for MD5.pm...
> >>> > Looks OK.
> >>> >
> >>> > Hit <ENTER> to continue.
> >>> >
> >>> > NEOMAIL SETUP
> >>> > =============
> >>> > Welcome to the NeoMail install script!  This script will prompt
> you
> >>> for
> >>> > some
> >>> > basic information about your desired setup, then install NeoMail
> >>> > according to
> >>> > your specifications.  To accept the default value for any
> question,
> >>> > simply hit
> >>> > Enter at the prompt. Don't forget to run feedback.pl once you've
> >>> > installed
> >>> > NeoMail and have some opinions to share!
> >>> >
> >>> > WARNING
> >>> > =======
> >>> > WARNING: I couldn't find suidperl on your system. NeoMail won't
> >>> function
> >>> > properly without suidperl installed.
> >>> >
> >>> > Hit <ENTER> to continue.
> >>> >
> >>> > -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> >>> > Fran: Torsten Mueller [mailto:[email protected]]
> >>> > Skickat: den 6 oktober 2002 21:58
> >>> > Till: Mikael Karmalm
> >>> > Amne: Re: VB: [Neomail-users] After upgrading to RH8 neomail
wont
> >>> work!
> >>> >
> >>> > Check your permissions on neomail.pl
> >>> >
> >>> > Torsten
> >>> >
> >>> > Mikael Karmalm schrieb:
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Hi again!
> >>> > >
> >>> > > The neomail.conf file is in /var/neomail/neomail.conf
> >>> > > So what could the problem be?
> >>> > >
> >>> > > -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> >>> > > Fran: Mikael Karmalm [mailto:[email protected]]
> >>> > > Skickat: den 6 oktober 2002 14:12
> >>> > > Till: '[email protected]'
> >>> > > Amne: SV: [Neomail-users] After upgrading to RH8 neomail wont
> >> work!
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Hi and thanx!
> >>> > >
> >>> > > I now have another problem!
> >>> > > Please help
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Software error:
> >>> > > Can't locate neomail.conf in @INC (@INC contains:
> >>> > > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i686-linux
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0
> >>> > > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux
> >>> > > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
> >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
> >>> > > /var/neomail) at /var/www/cgi-bin/neomail.pl line 37.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> >>> > > Fran: [email protected]
> >>> > > [mailto:[email protected]] For Torsten
> >>> Mueller
> >>> > > Skickat: den 6 oktober 2002 02:59
> >>> > > Till: [email protected]
> >>> > > Amne: Re: [Neomail-users] After upgrading to RH8 neomail wont
> >> work!
> >>> > >
> >>> > > The message says, what the problem is:
> >>> > > Can't do setuid
> >>> > >
> >>> > > As i don't run redhat, i can't give you an advice, how
> >>> > > to fix that, however the setuid thing is your problem.
> >>> > > (Possibly an rpm for suid or suid-perl ?)
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Torsten
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Mikael Karmalm schrieb:
> >>> > > >
> >>> > > > Hi!
> >>> > > >
> >>> > > > I have run Neomail for a long time on RedHat 7.1 and
Postfix,
> > no
> >>> > > > problem.
> >>> > > > Today I upgraded RedHat to 8.0 and Neomail stopped working.
> >>> > > > In the browser I get the error 500 and in error log I get
what
> >> you
> >>> > > > below.
> >>> > > >
> >>> > > > Please help I love my Neomail.
> >>> > > >
> >>> > > > /M
> >>> > > >
> >>> > > > [Sat Oct 05 23:59:44 2002] [error] [client 212.109.5.70]
Can't
> >> do
> >>> > > > setuid, referer: http://www.cpf.nu/menu.htm
> >>> > > > [Sat Oct 05 23:59:59 2002] [error] [client 212.109.5.70]
> >> Premature
> >>> > end
> >>> > > > of script headers: neomail.pl, referer:
> >> http://www.cpf.nu/menu.htm
> >>> > > >
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