[cobalt-users] RaQ 550 easy questions: CGI, e-mail files, home directories

["Joshua B. Lilly" <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have three different basic questions concerning this new RaQ 550.  These
issues are driving me crazy.  Apologies in advance if these are frequently
answered or stupid, but I did search the mailing list archives first and had
no luck (almost literally four uninterrupted hours of searching before
sending this; learned lots of good stuff but none of it really relevant to
these specific issues).


1) Where are users` e-mail files stored?  /var/spool/mail doesn`t seem to be
it any more.  I`m not sure why this was changed.  I need to know where these
are to set up webmail.

2) I want to alter where some users` starting directories are.  For example,
myself I want /home/josh.  Easy, right?  Just edit /etc/passwd and change
it... except it`s not stored there any more.  I can`t find where it is
stored at all, anywhere, after hours of looking.  How can I change
individual users` starting directories?  There are some cases where it is
absolutely imperative that I be able to do this.

3) Here`s the big one...can`t get any CGIs to run, at all.  Here is the
resultant error message through a browser:

"Internal Server Error
 The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable
to complete your request. Your administrator may not have enabled CGI access
for this directory."

I`ve looked through the mailing list archives for almost four hours
straight, so as to not pester people with questions already answered.  None
of the answers I found, however, seem to help me at all here.  I have set up
and run Apache perfectly fine before, on several Linux flavours (including
an old Cobalt RaQ 1), and never had this problem.  Apache documentation is
not helping, I think I`m following it to the letter but it doesn`t help.
Cobalt`s documentation only seems to cover the graphical interface.

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

<Directory /home/sites/cobalt1.patrickcounty.org/web/webmail/webmail/html/>
AllowOverride None
Options  ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-wrapper .cgi
AddHandler cgi-wrapper .pl
</Directory>


/etc/httpd/conf/srm.conf

Action cgi-wrapper /cgiwrapDir/cgiwrap
Action cgi-wrapper-debug /cgiwrapDir/cgiwrapd



I admit I don`t know too much about editing Apache files, so you can talk
down to me on this without apology.  :-)  Sorry if these seem very basic,
simple questions, I try not to bother folks with stuff on which the answers
can easily be obtained from RTFM, but in this case, I`m not having any luck.


- Joshua B. Lilly
Patrick County Public Schools, VA (USA)