[Mailman-Users] how to enable TRACEBACK for mailman "bug" errors?

[will trillich]

On 11/7/06, Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net> wrote:
> will trillich wrote:
> >how do we ENABLE (uninhibit) the display of traceback in the web-page
> >error message?
>
> The traceback and associated error info should be in Mailman's 'error'

i agree, it should. but it apparently isn't:

# ls -lt /var/log/mailman/error
-rw-r--r-- 1 list list 0 2006-11-06 12:31 /var/log/mailman/error
# ls -lt /var/log/mailman/ | head
total 524
-rw-rw-r-- 1 list     list   2032 2006-11-07 19:48 bounce
-rw-rw-r-- 1 list     list   4487 2006-11-07 19:48 smtp
-rw-rw-r-- 1 list     list  16727 2006-11-07 17:38 post
-rw-rw-r-- 1 list     list    155 2006-11-07 08:41 vette
-rw-rw-r-- 1 list     list    729 2006-11-07 06:25 qrunner
-rw-rw-r-- 1 list     list      0 2006-11-07 06:25 locks
-rw-rw-r-- 1 list     list      0 2006-11-07 06:25 smtp-failure
-rw-rw-r-- 1 list     list   5777 2006-11-07 06:04 smtp.1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 list     list    534 2006-11-06 22:41 smtp-failure.1

and this, just after a page-refresh with the bug bomb, and everything.

whatever the problem is, it's probably the same thing that's
interfering with error-log output (or perhaps, this being a debian
system, there's something else different going on).


> log. It is inhibited by default from display on the web page, because
> it is often meaningless to the person who encounters the error and
> could possibly reveal sensitive information.
>
> To enable traceback display on web pages, find the line
>
> STEALTH_MODE = 1
>
> in scripts/driver, and change it to
>
> STEALTH_MODE = 0

u da man! that did the trick -- thanks!

-- 
will trillich
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