In message <20030905000958.GA15050@moghedien.mukappabeta.net>, Matthias Buelow 
writes:
>Marshall Rose writes:
>
>>fundamentally, i'd really prefer that pkgsrc just do whatever the best curren
>t
>>practice is thought to be. right now, doing a pkgsrc install of apache and
>>mailman on a freshly-minted system doesn't not result in something that works
>...
>
>I've just built mailman from a freshly checked-out pkgsrc and it
>installs the cgi-bins as setgid mailman (which seems to work).
>Although I had to tweak the owner/permissions of the datadir
>(where mailman stores its stuff, including error logs) because
>otherwise it couldn't even log errors, except by complaining
>back to the http server.

Note that mailman's behavior also depends on what mailer you're running.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb