[Mailman-Users] Gzipping archives

[Dan Mick]

Other than reading the code, which I'm assuming you've done, nothing
pops to mind.  ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX has to be either 1 or 2, and 
GZIP_ARCHIVE_TXT_FILES needs to be 0.  Try -v and see if that
illuminates anything.

> I appear to have it installed.  Are there any other possibilities?  Would
> not having a module installed account for the script not producing *any*
> output at all?
> 
> spine[root] /home/mailman/cron> ls /usr/local/lib/python1.6/gzip*
> /usr/local/lib/python1.6/gzip.py
> /usr/local/lib/python1.6/gzip.pyc
> /usr/local/lib/python1.6/gzip.pyo
> spine[root] /home/mailman/cron>
> 
> 
> 	-Steve
> 
> 
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Dan Mick wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Steve Dinn wrote:
> > > 
> > > Can someone run down the steps required to have the downloadable version
> > > of a month's archives gzipped automatically?
> > > 
> > > I've set cron to run 'nightly_gzip' every night, but that doesn't seem to
> > > do anything.  It doesn't do anything when I run it explicitly either.  Is
> > > there a trick to this?
> > 
> > Your Python has to have the 'gzip' module installed, which not all do.
> > 
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