Corbett,
I suspect all your problems are related to permission or ownership problems. You installed 1.0b5 on top of an earlier installation didn't you? Earlier versions weren't quite as strict on perm/ownership (esp. group ownership) as 1.0b5 -- but they had other problems. BTW, you followed the README note about moving your list template files right?
Yeah, I thought that the install over was maybe causing me some headaches...so I did a nice rm -rf on my mailman dir and killed the user, and started over from scratch. All of the reported problems (from the previous posting) were encountered from this clean 1.0b5 install.
Please look at your installed directory (e.g. $prefix). You want to make sure all the files are group owned by the `mailman' group, and that all directories and files are writeable by group. Further, be sure that all directories have the group sticky bit set (so new files will inherit the right group owner).
Yeah, they appeared to be...and to make sure, I just went to /home and did
chmod -R g+w mailman chmod -R g+s mailman
After doing this, I pointed Netscape at http://www2.acm.jhu.edu/mailman/listinfo (as well as www2.acm.jhu.edu/mailman/listinfo/test -- I created this list as per the install)...and both gave me this now-familiar page:
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.
You want to in particular, make sure lists/yourlist/config.db is group writeable, etc.
I killed my b4 install, but before I did, I recursively zipped up my lists subtree. So are you saying that as long as the permissions on them are right, I can just unzip them back to their place and my old lists will live once again? (all of the aliases are still active from them) I haven't tried this yet...(as I was trying to sort of these regular problems first)
Just in case you spot anything odd, I'm going to send my ls -l -R /home/mailman your way (just to you...don't want to spam the list with that...)
CK