7 Jan
2004
7 Jan
'04
12:55 p.m.
"Barry" == Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> on Tue, 06 Jan 2004 13:43:55 -0500 writes:
Barry> On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 12:43, Robby Griffin wrote:
>> > Only later we found that with the web interface we get
>> a big > problems, for administrative things, both user
>> subscription or > adminstrator login.
>>
>> For what it's worth, I upgraded a single-server
>> installation yesterday and did not have this
>> problem. It's probably something unusual in your setup.
Barry> Neither did I, although there was one report of a
Barry> problem with authentication that is fixed in CVS and
Barry> which I think only affects sites under very uncommon
Barry> situations. I need more detail about these "big
Barry> problems" before I'll know whether this is related.
>> > if mm_cfg.SYNC_AFTER_WRITE:
>> > AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'SYNC_AFTER_WRITE'
>> Your new Mailman/Defaults.py (and Defaults.pyc) should
>> contain a SYNC_AFTER_WRITE setting (the default is No,
>> which you'd override in mm_cfg.py). If you had previously
>> write-protected Defaults.py or Defaults.pyc, or somehow
>> overwrote the new one with an old one, then the attribute
>> would be missing because the file wasn't updated.
>> Otherwise it's not obvious how that would occur, maybe
>> your mm_cfg.py fails to import everything from Defaults?
Barry> I'm pretty sure the release notes said that you MUST
Barry> re-run configure before installing. Defaults.py gets
Barry> generated from Defaults.py.in by the configure
Barry> script, so if you don't re-run configure, you won't
Barry> get the new defaults such as SYNC_AFTER_WRITE.We did rerun it in one place (mail server), but forgot in the other place (web server).
Thanks a lot for your help, and for mailman in general (and do apologize for having disturbed you!)
BTW: It seems 2.1.4 did catch much more bounce messages than 2.1.3: In about 10 hours, I didn't have one of the "Uncaught bounce notification" messages that I usually get about one per hour!
Thanks a lot!
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