Re: [Omail-webmail-news] suexec and perl problems

[Carter S. <der...@de...>]

On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 12:11, Jairo Tcatchenco wrote:
>             Hey stupid! Why don't you RTFM!!!
>    
>         Your second point could be solved simply installing the perl 
> modules Date::Parse  (TimeDate-1.08.tar.gz), optional Jcode (for 
> japanese support) and another optional MIME::Words  
> (MIME-tools-4.124.tar.gz). You can use the cpan tool to do this, or, 
> install by yourself the dependencies for this modules (IO-stringy, 
> MIME-Base, Test-Harness, Test-Simple, MailTools, File-Spec), that you 
> can find at http://search.cpan.org/.
> 
>         About your third point, the critical message that you found in 
> apache's log, verify what user is running the httpd processes. If you 
> are using nobody user instead of the www user, that you probably 
> compiled the suexec with, change the user in the httpd.conf.
> 
>         And, finally, the first point. If you followed the steps above, 
> another problem will appear, that I couldn't solve. In the access log of 
> apache you will see the following:
>                
> 
> > We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
> > Administrator. It usually boils down to these two things:
> >
> >         #1) Respect the privacy of others.
> >         #2) Think before you type.
> >
> > Password:
> > [Fri Jul 25 13:41:11 2003] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Premature 
> > end of script headers: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/webmail/omail.pl
> 
> 
>         And nothing more happens, the error in the page continues.
>         Could someone give me a reason for this?

>From the INSTALL doc from webmail2 (which is in CVS)

6) add an entry in the /etc/sudoers for perl & user webmail (cut &
   paste from below) (use command "visudo" to edit! that's the way it
   works... :)

   Cmnd_Alias   PERL=/usr/bin/perl
   webmail  ALL=NOPASSWD: PERL

This should allow your webmail user to sudo without entering a password!

Carter

>             Thanks.
> 
> Jairo Tcatchenco
> ja...@cd...
> 
> 
> Jairo Tcatchenco wrote:
> 
> >        Hello all!
> >
> >    I'm in trouble with the basis of the instalation. When I enter the 
> > webmail, the following error ocurrs:
> >            Premature end of script headers: 
> > /usr/local/apache/htdocs/webmail/omail.pl
> >
> >    When I run manually (as root user) the omail.pl file, the following 
> > error ocurrs:
> >            omail.pl: Can't locate Date/Parse.pm in @INC
> >    And I have looked for this file in my box and I haven't found it 
> > yet. Should I need to install any librarie?
> >
> >    And, the last one, I have the following error with the suexec, 
> > anytime that I try to access my webmail:
> >            crit: calling user mismatch (nobody instead of www)
> >
> >        Any help or documentation are welcome!
> >
> >    Thanks.
> >
> > Jairo Tcatchenco
> > ja...@ad...
> >