Mailman 3 November 2002 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] New apache is causing my mailman to fail...
by Steve Rifkin 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

Still having troubles... I thought I'd start somewhat from scratch this time. Since mailman is failing with python errors that reference ssl, I've cleared out the ssl directory so that the ssl dir had nothing from a prior version in it. I rebuilt ssl (openssl-0.9.6g), and then, I rebuilt python 2.2.2, so that python, when being built, will only see the fresh openssl. Afterwords, I bring up mailman/listinfo via our web server, and once again received the error in the browser about a bug in Mailman 2.08 The logs from mailman this time indicate something different from last time. If you recall, last time, I was receiving: admin(3540): ImportError: ld.so.1: /usr/local/bin/python: fatal: /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.so.0.9.6: bad ELF flags value: 768 Clearly, ssl looked involved. But, this go around led to different errors, not related to ssl (as far as I can see.) admin(3771): ImportError: ld.so.1: /usr/local/bin/python: fatal: /usr/local/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload/_socket.so: bad ELF flags value: 256 Can anyone help out with this? The full error listing is below. Thanks! Steve admin(3771): [----- Mailman Version: 2.0.8 -----] admin(3771): [----- Traceback ------] admin(3771): Traceback (most recent call last): admin(3771): File "/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 80, in run_main admin(3771): import Mailman.pythonlib.cgi admin(3771): File "../Mailman/pythonlib/cgi.py", line 31, in ? admin(3771): import urllib admin(3771): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/urllib.py", line 26, in ? admin(3771): import socket admin(3771): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/socket.py", line 41, in ? admin(3771): from _socket import * admin(3771): ImportError: ld.so.1: /usr/local/bin/python: fatal: /usr/local/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload/_socket.so: bad ELF flags value: 256 admin(3771): [----- Python Information -----] admin(3771): sys.version = 2.2.2 (#1, Nov 25 2002, 15:28:57) [GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)] admin(3771): sys.executable = /usr/local/bin/python admin(3771): sys.prefix = /usr/local admin(3771): sys.exec_prefix= /usr/local admin(3771): sys.path = /usr/local admin(3771): sys.platform = sunos5 admin(3771): [----- Environment Variables -----] admin(3771): PYTHONPATH: /home/mailman admin(3771): SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) PHP/4.2.3 mod_perl/1.27 admin(3771): SCRIPT_FILENAME: /home/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo admin(3771): SERVER_ADMIN: webmaster(a)cs.jhu.edu admin(3771): SCRIPT_NAME: /mailman/listinfo admin(3771): SCRIPT_URI: http://www.cs.jhu.edu/mailman/listinfo admin(3771): SERVER_SIGNATURE: <ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.27 Server at www.cs.jhu.edu Port 80</ADDRESS> admin(3771): REQUEST_METHOD: GET admin(3771): HTTP_HOST: www.cs.jhu.edu admin(3771): SCRIPT_URL: /mailman/listinfo admin(3771): SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1 admin(3771): QUERY_STRING: admin(3771): HTTP_CONNECTION: keep-alive admin(3771): HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL: max-age=0 admin(3771): REQUEST_URI: /mailman/listinfo admin(3771): HTTP_ACCEPT: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8, video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,text/css,*/*;q=0.1 admin(3771): HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET: ISO-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.66, *;q=0.66 admin(3771): HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020829 admin(3771): TZ: US/Eastern admin(3771): SERVER_NAME: www.cs.jhu.edu admin(3771): REMOTE_ADDR: 128.220.13.39 admin(3771): REMOTE_PORT: 42200 admin(3771): HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-us, en;q=0.50 admin(3771): SERVER_PORT: 80 admin(3771): GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1 admin(3771): DOCUMENT_ROOT: /users/httpd/htdocs admin(3771): HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflate, compress;q=0.9 admin(3771): SERVER_ADDR: 128.220.13.101 admin(3771): HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE: 300

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Question
by Michael Snow 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

I'm maintaining several email lists using Mailman, but I can't find any way to get a list of subscribers emailed to me. I have the list of subscribers set to be shown to the administrator only, not members, and would like to be able to get the list by email using my admin password. Is there any way to do this? The email Help file doesn't list this as an option specifically. -- _______________________ Michael Snow Snow Creative Services mailto:michael@snowcreative.com http://snowcreative.com please FTP files larger than 900K to: ftp://snowcreative.com/incoming

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need to authorize a posting
by Devra Rochelle 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

The previous systems administrator for our company is no longer employed here. I am his replacement, and have receive emails stating, "as list administrator, your authorization is requested for the following mailing list posting". My predecessor left no documentation as the password I should use to approve or deny the request, or any way to seek help with the program. How can I get in? Also, I am unable to open a window to edit our mailing lists - including to add my own name! I have a couple of other questions as well. I can be reached at (513) 351-5705 or this email address. Any assistance you can give me will be greatly appreciated. Devra Rochelle Systems Analyst Sure-Wood Forest Products

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Re: [Mailman-Users] How to eliminate footer?
by Marina Markus 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

Hello Fuzzy, Thank you for your answer - I also paid attention that mail clients other than Pine don't show this "Note" footer, and one of the theories was that this is in fact information contained in headers. However, it only means that I should reformulate my question: is there a way to make Mailman not to add headers like List-Help, List-Post etc. ? Marina Markus Ben-Gurion University ====================== mary(a)bgumail.bgu.ac.il On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Fuzzy wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Marina Markus wrote: > > > > > [ Note: This message contains email list management information ] > > > > > > Does anyone know how to clean messages totally of any extra lines? > > > > Please answer directly to my email and not [only] to the list. > > Thank you in advance, > > > > That looks like Pine's telling you the list-LISTNAME: headers > exist and giving you a way to access them. I guess you could > tell MM to not produce them for that list? I see the same message > when I read list mail with the list-listname: headers. > > > > -- > /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Fuzzy, SysAdmin, > \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | ASARian.org > X - NO Word docs in e-mail | fuzzy @ ASARian.org > / \ > > >

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forcing addition of "hostile address"
by Christopher Kolar 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

Hello. I am trying to add a person to a mail list and having some problems. Their organization runs some sort of bestial mail system where the addresses are of the form: schmoe.j/bhs(a)dns.u99.k12.il.us When I try to drop the address in through the mass subscribe screen I get the following message from Mailman: * Joe Schmoe -- Hostile address (illegal characters) My guess is that the / is getting parsed by Mm as an attempt to reference a file (a la majordomo). Is there a way to force the address onto the subscriber list? It is an actual valid address for delivery. Thanks in advance, --chris /////\\\\\/////\\\\\ Christopher G. Kolar Coordinator of Information Technology Integration Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy ckolar(a)imsa.edu -- <http://staff.imsa.edu/~ckolar>staff.imsa.edu/~ckolar -- PGP Public Key ID: 0xC6492C72 Information literacy news, tools, and programs: <mailto:infoliteracy-subscribe@iti.cnsnet.imsa.edu>infoliteracy-subscribe(a)iti.cnsnet.imsa.<mailto:infoliteracy-subscribe@iti.cnsnet.imsa.edu>edu

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Qrunner error (locks, maybe?)
by Victor Allen 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

Background: Debian Stable with Postfix as MTA and Apache as webserver. After apt-get install-ing mailman, I get the following crontab error over and over again: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 276, in ? lock.lock(timeout=0.5) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 219, in lock self.__write() File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 350, in __write fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/locks/qrunner.lock.crash.30060' I really have no idea what's wrong here or how to fix it. Any help would be most appreciated. - Victor ***************************** Victor Allen MIDN 1/c, USNR Brother, Delta Chi Fraternity email: victor(a)squorch.com

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Using CSS for all pages
by Hamm, Gottfried 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

Hi all, actually I'm using Mailman 2.1b5. I would like to apply my general CSS file on all Mailman pages to get a unique look and feel like the whole web site. For the list pages I could do it for every page as list administrator from the web interface, but for the general pages how can I do that? You can have a look on the listserver here http://lists.ghks.de (all pages should appear as the starting page. Thanks in advance for any hint / help. Cheers, Gottfried -- Gottfried Hamm Phone +49 (6249) 905005 | Fax +49 (6249) 905004 mailto:ghamm@ghks.de | http://www.ghks.de

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Multiple Servers for a List?
by David Richards 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

This is also now possible with RedHat Advanced Server - using shared storage??? So will it run in a load balanced manner there?? Presumably if it runs on a Tru64 cluster (which we have many of), it will run on a number of servers sharing file systems via NFS?? Thoughts?? Dave. > > > > > Using the LDAP master/slave paradigm. Even better would be to > use the > Novell e-Directory method and have a 'peer' network. > So any updates > against any system in the peer-ring, will update > (and make sure it > happens - receive confirmation) every other > member in the peer group. > > > Sounds good - someone with a lot more time than me going to > pick it up?? > > > Since we are venturing into the realm of proprietariness .... > > Even better would be to just install/run Mailman on a Tru64 UNIX > cluster with Mailman installed on shared Cluster Filesystem, set > up for load balancing and/or failover among cluster nodes as > desired. > Linux clusters may get there someday but it is going to take a > while longer. > > Dave Richards Project Manager (Messaging) Information Technology Services Queensland University of Technology

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Change to Password
by Vitor de Matos Carvalho 24 Nov '02

24 Nov '02

Hi.. I am trying to change the password of Administrator in the list page, only that it is giving the following error: Bug in Mailman version 2.0.13 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. Nov 24 12:21:43 2002 admin(30986): @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ admin(30986): [----- Mailman Version: 2.0.13 -----] admin(30986): [----- Traceback ------] admin(30986): Traceback (most recent call last): admin(30986): File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 96, in run_main admin(30986): main() admin(30986): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 154, in main admin(30986): ChangeOptions(mlist, category, cgidata, doc) admin(30986): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 817, in ChangeOptions admin(30986): mlist.WebAuthenticate(password=new, cookie='admin') admin(30986): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 68, in WebAuthenticate admin(30986): self.ConfirmAdminPassword(password) admin(30986): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 56, in ConfirmAdminPassword admin(30986): raise Errors.MMBadPasswordError admin(30986): MMBadPasswordError Regards, Vitor de Matos Carvalho System Network Administrator - Softinfo Network FreeBSD - The Power To Serve

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How to eliminate footer?
by Marina Markus 24 Nov '02

24 Nov '02

Hello All, On of list owners at our server demands to totally eliminate all extra information from the list messages. I tried to define empty footer on "Regular member (non-digest) Options" page; I even added a definition: DEFAULT_MSG_FOOTER = "" in "mm_cfg.py" file and created a list anew, but every message still has a usual line with a link: [ Note: This message contains email list management information ] Does anyone know how to clean messages totally of any extra lines? Please answer directly to my email and not [only] to the list. Thank you in advance, Marina Markus Ben-Gurion University ====================== mary(a)bgumail.bgu.ac.il

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