Ok, this is really 2 messages chained together...it seems John is soon to be a dad (or maybe a dad again, not sure actually :), so he's a little busy :) Any assistance is _greatly_ appreciated...the other ACM guys kept whining because the list is down, so I just set up a temp alias to quiet them until I get this sorted out :)
Is it supposed to be the case where you have to be root to create a new list? I thought that in my 1.0b4 install, I had created new lists as cklempay...but if I do it as anything other than root now (with b5), I get this:
[mailman@chimera bin]$ newlist test Enter the email of the person running the list: cklempay@acm.jhu.edu Enter the initial list password: snoop Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/bin/newlist", line 133, in ? raise SystemExit(main(sys.argv)) File "/home/mailman/bin/newlist", line 83, in main newlist.Create(list_name, owner_mail, pw) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 518, in Create Utils.MakeDirTree(os.path.join(mm_cfg.LIST_DATA_DIR, name)) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 276, in MakeDirTree os.mkdir(made_part, perms) os.error: (13, 'Permission denied') [mailman@chimera bin]$
I don't know if this is the way it is supposed to be and maybe I had it working before only because maybe I had messed up some permissions...
I had been having a LOT of problems getting it to let me access any of the pages (all of the logs turned up 'Premature end of script headers' or in some configurations I'd get a Internal Server Error). In my current state, I can view www2.acm.jhu.edu/mailman/listinfo
but if I su to root and do a newlist to create a test list, I get this if I try to access www2.acm.jhu.edu/mailman/admin/test :
We're sorry, we hit a bug!
If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what happened. Thanks!
Traceback:
Content-type: text/html
We're sorry, we hit a bug!
Mailman experienced a very low level failure and could not even generate a useful traceback. Please report this to the Mailman administrator at this site.
I'm not sure, but I thought I remembered someone mentioning something like this earlier today too.
One other quick (and sort of unrelated question)...I just recursively zipped up my /home/mailman/lists subtree before killing b4...since my aliases are still in place (didn't touch those), can I just extract them to their original places and have it work? Or does Mailman keep other administrative data about that it won't have for these lists if I create them that way?
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