Mailman 3 December 1999 - Mailman-Developers

16 Dec '99

Hello once again, I have some other messages that I do not understand at all either, here they are: Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 77, in ? main(verbose=(len(sys.argv) > 1 File "/home/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 34, in main list = MailList.MailList(name, lock = 0) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 62, in __init__ self.Load() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 810, in Load raise Errors.MMBadListError, 'Failed to access config info' MMBadListError: Failed to access config info AND Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/cron/run_queue", line 46, in ? main() File "/home/mailman/cron/run_queue", line 39, in main lockfile.lock() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 186, in lock os.link(self.__lockfile, self.__tmpfname) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory IN ADDITION TO: Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 119, in ? main() File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 58, in main mlist = MailList.MailList(name, lock=0) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 62, in __init__ self.Load() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 810, in Load raise Errors.MMBadListError, 'Failed to access config info' MMBadListError: Failed to access config info Like I said in a previous message, I see my "Your new mailing list" page and I can click on the links but I have these errors. I just got assigned this project to use mailman a week ago and have never heard about it before that time so I am very sorry if my explainations are not very good ones. Another note: I had no errors on the installation. Thank you in advance for any help you can give me. Kirsten Melanie Royal -- "...I don't have to eat, I don't have to drink, I just have to study."

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[Fwd: [Mailman-Users] Cron Daemon errors]
by mr 16 Dec '99

16 Dec '99

mr wrote: > Hello, > > I just learned about and am using mailman in my job. I have installed > it and have got it half-way working (I see the "Your New Mailing List" > mail and can click on these links. However I do not understand the > error messages I am receiving from the Cron Daemon. The most important > one being (I believe, because it is the first one I always receive): > > Traceback (innermost last): > File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 119, in ? > main() > File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 58, in main > mlist = MailList.MailList(name, lock=0) > File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 62, in __init__ > self.Load() > File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 810, in Load > raise Errors.MMBadListError, 'Failed to access config info' > MMBadListError: Failed to access config info > > I have just been able to locate these errors but have no idea what > these errors mean or how to fix them. > > Can someone help me? > > Thanks in advance, > > Kirsten Melanie Royal > > -- > > "?.I don't have to eat, I don't have to drink, I just have to study." > > -- "?.I don't have to eat, I don't have to drink, I just have to study."

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Technical CGI question
by Lalo Martins 16 Dec '99

16 Dec '99

Hi. I'm not currently subscribed to this list, but I probably will as soon as I get back from vacation. I'm writing a Zope Product to interface with Mailman, for sites (like mine) that don't do any webserving stuff outside Zope. I chose Mailman mostly because it's Python-based, and GNU. After the introduction... I'm at step 1, which is trying to figure out mailman's internals, specially the CGI stuff. What I'd like to know is, is there any good reason why you run all your CGI interface trough a compiled wrapper, instead of just directly running the python scripts? I found out python is quite cool for CGI (before I found out Zope and dumped CGI completely). And of course you know that the python path stuff is quite easy to solve. (Of course, please CC replies back to me. I'll be glad to discuss arguments when I'm back, for now I only want a quick explanation.) []s, |alo +---- -- I am Lalo of deB-org. You will be freed. Resistance is futile. http://www.webcom.com/lalo mailto:lalo@webcom.com pgp key in the web page Debian GNU/Linux --- http://www.debian.org Brazil of Darkness -- http://zope.gf.com.br/BroDar

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illegal seek
by Ricardo Kustner 15 Dec '99

15 Dec '99

>Okay, so sys.stdin isn't seekable everywhere :) Give the below patch >a try. a few days ago Barry send me a patch that fixes an "Illegal Seek" error which I'm getting on my system (in scripts/post)... this hasn't been checked in the CVS yet... but I noticed this problem pops up in other places too... I think my mailinglist isn't working 100% now (but thats what you get for using 'experimental' version ;) ) Mailman/Message.py (49) also does a self.rewindbody(), causing the same error on my system. ... i'm seeing this appear several times a day in the error log so something isn't going that good on my list .... :) i'm curious to know what this problem is related to? is it the C library? my system is running good old libc5 Ricardo. --

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Re: [Mailman-Users] fetch by email
by Mats Wichmann 14 Dec '99

14 Dec '99

At 11:54 AM 12/14/1999 -0500, you wrote: > >>>>>> "MW" == Mats Wichmann <mats(a)laplaza.org> writes: > > MW> That is - fetch-by-email of arbitrary files from an archive > MW> area. In addition to automatically generated archives > MW> which mailman makes available in downloadable form via > MW> a web page, can an arbitrary file be added to the area and > MW> picked up - and is there a way archive files can be picked > MW> up by email request? > >Mailman currently doesn't support this, but it would not be hard to >add, if you're up for a bit of Python hacking. If you think you'd >like to implement something like this, please move the discussion over >to mailman-developers where we can design an approach. > >-Barry I'm game to try, since I have the incentive to get this working.... So...consider it moved. Mats

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CVS access via web
by Barry A. Warsaw 14 Dec '99

14 Dec '99

FYI: The Mailman CVS tree can be accessed via the web, using Greg Stein's cool ViewCVS stuff. See http://cvs.python.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi Enjoy! -Barry

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Wish list item: anyone working on it?
by Dan Mick 14 Dec '99

14 Dec '99

I wish that the admindb interface would show a different "default" message based on the type of the 'post' request; that is, now, it always displays the suggested text Please do *not* post administrative requests to the mailing list! If you wish to subscribe, visit %s or send a 'help' message to the the request address, %s , for instructions but that's only appropriate for some sort of post requests. I see that "AddRequest" sometimes gets called with standard members of Errors, but sometimes gets called with hard-coded strings; what one would need is to regularize all those, and then have a mapping between the Errors argument and the suggested text argument (like a more-complicated Errors object, perhaps). I could probably hack this together for MM 1.1; is there any point in me doing so and shipping diffs to somewhere? i.e. * is anyone working on this, or * is anyone known to be completely reorganizing this source anyway, and * what's the least-painful way to contribute changes?

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Installing python 1.5.2
by Kory Wheatley 13 Dec '99

13 Dec '99

I am going to be installing python 1.5.2 to red hat 6.0 linux. Do any of you have any information or problems that I should look at for. Is there something that I might have to tweak with this new version. -- Kory Wheatley Office Phone 236-3874 Computing & Communication Academic Computing Analyst sr. Everything you do must point to him.

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Cron error message
by Kory Wheatley 13 Dec '99

13 Dec '99

This error message below is generated when the cron scheduled job gate_news is ran. Would this error happen in result that I am running mailman 1.1 and have Python1.5.1 do I need upgrade to Python 1.5.2 for this cron entry to run? I have been getting similar errors from the other mailman cron job entries to (like senddigests, nightly-gzip), since I upgraded mailman from 1.0 to 1.1. Mailman is installed on red hat 6.0 using the MTA Sendmail. What's funny is I can still receive mail messages fine from the lists and send them out if I have all of the cron jobs commented out. Once I have the cron jobs running after a while when getting error message sent to me the postmaster of mailman about the cron processes errors, I can't receive any messages from the mailman subscript lists that I have myself on. I receive usually a mailer 2 error. All of the permissions are setup correctly for mailman 1.1. If I shutdown and reboot my Linux machine then everything will work again until those cron jobs processes run for a while., then eventually I can't receive any message from the lists or if I send messages to the lists I just get error message back form mailman admin. I really need help I have 20 production list on mailman that need to be working all the time. Do I need to upgrade to python 1.5.2? Will mailman 1.1 work with python 1.5.1 and I just need to tweak something? I am desperately seeking support here. If anyone has the answer please respond immediately. I have not found any documentation that says mailman 1.1 will not work with python 1.5.1. If I have missed this documentation please point me to the link that explains what's needed for mailman 1.1 to work with red hat 6.0. Is there anyway to pay for getting support for mailman being installed on a system. Here is the error message below, sorry so long but I need help badly. Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 119, in ? main() File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 58, in main mlist = MailList.MailList(name, lock=0) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 62, in __init__ self.Load() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 820, in Load setattr(self, key, value) TypeError: setattr, argument 2: expected string, None found -- Kory Wheatley Office Phone 236-3874 Computing & Communication Academic Computing Analyst sr. Everything you do must point to him.

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by Uwe Wannags 13 Dec '99

13 Dec '99

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