Mailman 3 July 2001 - Mailman-Users

Memory error when running arch
by James Madill July 27, 2001

July 27, 2001

Last night, when running arch against one of the mailing lists on my Mailman server, the following error was displayed on the terminal: Updating HTML for article 12815 Updating HTML for article 12816 Updating HTML for article 12817 Traceback (most recent call last): File "./arch", line 129, in ? main() File "./arch", line 119, in main archiver.close() File "/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 304, in close self.update_dirty_archives() File "/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 949, in update_dirty_archives self.__super_update_dirty_archives() File "/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 513, in update_dirty_archives self.update_archive(i) File "/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 952, in update_archive self.__super_update_archive(archive) File "/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 422, in update_archive self._update_thread_index(archive, arcdir) File "/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 479, in _update_thread_index self.update_article(arcdir, article, a1, a3) File "/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 1115, in update_article f.write(article.as_html()) File "/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 298, in as_html return self.html_tmpl % d MemoryError $ When I reran it this morning after checking the OS for errors, the same problem occured: Updating HTML for article 12490 Updating HTML for article 12491 Updating HTML for article 12492 Updating index files for archive [2001-February] Date no mem for new parser Traceback (most recent call last): File "./arch", line 129, in ? main() File "./arch", line 119, in main archiver.close() File "/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 304, in close self.update_dirty_archives() File "/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 949, in update_dirty_archives self.__super_update_dirty_archives() File "/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 513, in update_dirty_archives self.update_archive(i) File "/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 952, in update_archive self.__super_update_archive(archive) File "/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 420, in update_archive self._update_simple_index(hdr, archive, arcdir) File "/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 437, in _update_simple_index article = self.database.getArticle(self.archive, msgid) File "/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 279, in getArticle article = self.__cache[msgid] = pickle.loads(buf) MemoryError $ The three cron jobs also appeared to fail today as well: Your "cron" job on arachnia /usr/local/bin/python -S /mailman/cron/qrunner produced the following output: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 85, in ? from Mailman import MailList File "/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 43, in ? from Mailman.MailCommandHandler import MailCommandHandler MemoryError -- Your "cron" job on arachnia /usr/local/bin/python -S /mailman/cron/gate_news produced the following output: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 40, in ? from Mailman import MailList File "/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 44, in ? from Mailman.HTMLFormatter import HTMLFormatter File "/mailman/Mailman/HTMLFormatter.py", line 27, in ? from Mailman.htmlformat import * MemoryError -- Your "cron" job on arachnia /usr/local/bin/python -S /mailman/cron/senddigests produced the following output: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 65, in ? main() File "/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 42, in main send_list_digest(mlist) File "/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 46, in send_list_digest mlist.Lock() File "/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1343, in Lock self.Load() File "/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 903, in Load raise Errors.MMCorruptListDatabaseError, e Mailman.Errors.MMCorruptListDatabaseError: bad marshal data The machine is a Solaris 7 box with 256Meg of RAM Mailman version is 2.0.6 Python version is 2.1 The list in question has about 16,000 archived messages arch has no problem running against lists with fewer messages in the archives. It looks like the arch script might be overflowing some kind of Python memory buffer. Any ideas, solutions? -- James o o o o o o o . . . _______________________ _______=======_T___ o _____ |James Madill | |Duke Univ Med Ctr| >.][__n_n_| D[ ====|____ |james.madill(a)duke.edu| | (919) 286-6384 | (________|__|_[____/____]_|_____________________|_|_________________| _/oo O-O-O ` oo oo 'o^o^o o^o^o` 'o^o o^o` -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- <http://www.duke.edu/~madil001/>

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help with creating newlist
by Preeti Mehta July 27, 2001

July 27, 2001

hi i have been using mailman & it seemed to b working just fine but now it is giving problems when i try to create a new list it simply hangs & if interrupted gives the following error message could anyone please tell me what is wrong??? the other sscripts seem to b working fine only newlist is giving this problem the error is : Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/bin/newlist", line 220, in ? main() File "/home/mailman/bin/newlist", line 169, in main mlist.Create(listname, owner_mail, pw) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 786, in Create self.__lock.lock() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 286, in lock self.__sleep() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 424, in __sleep time.sleep(interval) KeyboardInterrupt thanks in advance

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help on user interface
by Preeti Mehta July 27, 2001

July 27, 2001

i wanted to know if mailman has a user interface to create new lists???? thanks in advance

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Help ! (not work with & symbol)
by Richard Barrett July 27, 2001

July 27, 2001

& has special meaning on the command line so you would need to escape it in the aliases, e.g. something like: /var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper post r\&d but in any event using characters that have special meanings in mail list names is just creating problems which are best avoided even if the characters concerned were legal in a mail address. If I were you I would pick a list name containing only a-z, 0-9 and hyphen. At 17:45 26/07/2001 +0200, you wrote: > Hi all ! > >I created one mailing list ,its name a&b >When i post to list (a&b(a)blabla.com),i got error msg : > >---------- > ><a&b(a)blabla.com>: Command died with status 127: > "/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper post r&d". Command output: sh: d: >command > not found Mailman error: post got bad listname: r > >----------- > >How can i correct it ? > >Thanks, >Dong > >Notes : - i need to use & symbol :-( > - debian potato > - mailman 2.0.5 > > >------------------------------------------------------ >Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users(a)python.org >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

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re:locks.....cjk
by Constantine Koulis July 27, 2001

July 27, 2001

Hello I am using the LATEST version of Mailman.Can somebody explain me what the lock files do? On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:09:02 +0300 Constantine Koulis <kouliscon(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >Hello all. Sometimes if i do a change in my WEB administration >menu of Mailman and i try to access again the same Web interface >it doesnt let me unless i DELETE the files in the locks directory >of my MAilman. Anybody knows why? Older versions of Mailman had inconsistent and occasionally broken lock handling patterns. These are considerably improved in the current release to the point of rarely being a problem, and if so a short lived on (I suspect you're running an older version). Lock handling is considerably improved in the current beta. Tks & Best Regards Koulis Constantine. Bucharest Romania Business Phone :+4-093979131 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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WANTED gid 99, GOT gid 48
by Rob Brandt July 26, 2001

July 26, 2001

Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 99, GOT gid 48. (Reconfigure to take 48?) I've got this error on my new Mailman installation. On my system GID 99 =nobody and GID 48 = apache. I've looked through the archives and have found suggestions that I recompile using the id number and name of the "got" ID, in this case: ./configure --with-mail-gid=48 --with-cgi-gid=apache. But this doesn't seem right to me. All other advice seems to point that I want it done under 'nobody'. In fact, I've run check_perms and it says "no problems". What should I do, really? Rob BTW, I'm an "everything" newbie.

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gate news order
by J.D. Bronson July 26, 2001

July 26, 2001

Does anyone know how to change the order that 'gate_news' runs thru the newsgroups to suck news down? I thought it went alphabetically, but that is not the case...I made one change to a newsgroup and now it pulls LAST and it is the 1st in the alphabet. This may be a strange question, but I am hoping that someone has an answer! -- J.D. Bronson Aurora Health Care Information Systems Milwaukee Wisconsin USA Main Office: 414.978.8282

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Help ! (not work with & symbol)
by LE Van Dong July 26, 2001

July 26, 2001

Hi all ! I created one mailing list ,its name a&b When i post to list (a&b(a)blabla.com),i got error msg : ---------- <a&b(a)blabla.com>: Command died with status 127: "/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper post r&d". Command output: sh: d: command not found Mailman error: post got bad listname: r ----------- How can i correct it ? Thanks, Dong Notes : - i need to use & symbol :-( - debian potato - mailman 2.0.5

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Help ! (not work with & symbol)
by Phydeaux July 26, 2001

July 26, 2001

At 05:45 PM 7/26/2001 +0200, LE Van Dong wrote: > Hi all ! > >I created one mailing list ,its name a&b >When i post to list (a&b(a)blabla.com),i got error msg : > >---------- > ><a&b(a)blabla.com>: Command died with status 127: > "/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper post r&d". Command output: sh: d: >command > not found Mailman error: post got bad listname: r > >----------- > >How can i correct it ? > >Thanks, >Dong > >Notes : - i need to use & symbol :-( > - debian potato > - mailman 2.0.5 You may *need* to use it but I think you can't because the & character will break just about everything involved. To start with It's not a legal character for use in email address. reb

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unknown mailer error 126, operation not permitted, eek.
by Joe Jenkins July 26, 2001

July 26, 2001

Hello everyone, I just installed the latest version of Python, Sendmail, and Mailman on my server.. Everything checks out except for when mailing the list.. Depending on how I set up things I get back failures.. Now, I have read the faq, and this had some information on the problem, but that didnt work for me... I've tried creating the wrapper (ln -s /home/mailman/mail/wrapper /etc/smrsh/wrapper) and I get the same error, even when my aliases point at this. I've tried disabled smrsh in sendmail, and I still get errors, ie Operation not permitted etc. I've toyed with the permissions of the symlink and the smrsh directory, all to no avail... I've set up mailman on several different systems before, all sucessful. This one is baffling me however... Server: RH Linux 7.0 Sendmail 8.11.4 Python 2.1.1 Mailman 2.0.6 Executing the wrapper from the command line gives no strange errors or failures... Any information on this would be very appreciated... Mailman has been bulletproof for me on all my other systems.. Thanks to you all! Joe Jenkins --- Errors: Using the symlink wrapper in smrsh: ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/etc/smrsh/wrapper mailcmd oldwalls" (reason: 126) (expanded from: <oldwalls-request(a)nerdnet.com>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- /bin/sh: /etc/smrsh/wrapper: Operation not permitted 554 5.3.0 "|/etc/smrsh/wrapper mailcmd oldwalls" ... unknown mailer error 126 Reporting-MTA: dns; gatekeeper.nerdnet.com Received-From-MTA: DNS; mail.nowalls.com Arrival-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:59:35 -0600 normal aliases: ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd oldwalls" (reason: 126) (expanded from: <oldwalls-request(a)nerdnet.com>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- /bin/sh: /etc/smrsh/wrapper: Operation not permitted 554 5.3.0 "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd oldwalls"... unknown mailer error 126 Reporting-MTA: dns; gatekeeper.nerdnet.com Received-From-MTA: DNS; mail.nowalls.com Arrival-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:51:49 -0600 smrsh disable in sendmail: ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd oldwalls" (reason: 126) (expanded from: <oldwalls-request(a)nerdnet.com>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- sh: /home/mailman/mail/wrapper: Operation not permitted 554 5.3.0 "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd oldwalls"... unknown mailer error 126 Reporting-MTA: dns; gatekeeper.nerdnet.com Received-From-MTA: DNS; mail.nowalls.com Arrival-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:53:16 -0600

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