I posted this on comp.lang.python, but thought I should post here too. I recently installed the Sun Recommended patches on my Solaris 2.5.1 x86 box, along with the Sun Year 2000 fixes for it. Unfortunately, this broke my mailing list server and I didn't realize it until about 2 weeks later (very quiet mailing list :)

At first it seemed as if all the mail was bouncing back, so I backed out of the sendmail patch from Sun's huge patch cluster. Then mail was getting out, but nothing else worked.

I'm running Python 1.5, with mailman 1.0b4 over Apache 1.3.0. The second thing I tried doing was upgrading everything (apache 1.3.3, Python 1.5.1 and mailman 1.0b5), which was a big mistake, since mailman 1.0b4 and 1.0b5 doesn't seem to work with Python 1.5.1 at all ( something about a CRYPT error even though I did compile in the crypt module).

So I reverted back to Python 1.5 with mailman 1.0b4, which so far seems to work from the command line. However, I'm still having problems with the web server, accessing the admin page gives the following error

Traceback (innermost last): File "/export/home2/mailman/scripts/admin", line 836, in ? main() File "/export/home2/mailman/scripts/admin", line 149, in main lst = maillist.MailList(list_name) File "/export/home2/mailman/Mailman/maillist.py", line 64, in __init__ self.Load() File "/export/home2/mailman/Mailman/maillist.py", line 546, in Load self.Lock() File "/export/home2/mailman/Mailman/maillist.py", line 887, in Lock self._lock_file = posixfile.open( File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/posixfile.py", line 216, in open return _posixfile_().open(name, mode, bufsize) File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/posixfile.py", line 81, in open return self.fileopen(__builtin__.open(name, mode, bufsize)) IOError: (13, 'Permission denied')

Exception exceptions.AttributeError: '_file_' in ignored

Accessing the listinfo page gives an Apache internal server error.

I'm going to revert back to Apache 1.3.0, and if that doesn't work, backout of the multiple patches I installed for y2k and security. This seems somewhat drastic so I'd really appreciate any tips from anyone before doing this.

Thanks much.