RE: [Mailman-Users] Mailman error was emailed to user mailman
File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 497, >in __save os.unlink(fname_last) OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '/usr/local/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck.last'
This error is occurring when Mailman is trying the save the current configuration for the mailman list. It has saved it to a temp name and now is trying to rotate the files - i.e. remove config.pck.last, and rename config.pck to config.pck.last and the temp name to config.pck, but its attempt to unlink config.pck.last results in the above.
See http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-January/041634.html and the reply at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-January/041646.html or see the following google search http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=site%3Amail.python.org+%22errno+22%22+config.pck&btnG=Search
-- Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net> The highway is for Hi again, Thanks Mark, that was pretty much what I thought. I am running OSX 'client' 10.3.8, so it's a stock source installation of Mailman 2.1.5 on Postfix, not anything Apple has modified. Have you any suggestions as to how to prevent this happening in the future. It's the first error Mailman has generated since it was installed some months ago.
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Terry Allen wrote:
Thanks Mark, that was pretty much what I thought. I am running OSX 'client' 10.3.8, so it's a stock source installation of Mailman 2.1.5 on Postfix, not anything Apple has modified. Have you any suggestions as to how to prevent this happening in the future. It's the first error Mailman has generated since it was installed some months ago.
No one seems to know the underlying cause, the impression I get from http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=site%3Amail.python.org+%22errno+22%22+config.pck&btnG=Search is it seems to only occur on Mac OSX.
I gather from the above that you have installed from source on OSX 'client'. It also is reported on Apple installed OSX server versions.
I can only guess, but the underlying issue seems to be with OSX itself. Possibly you could get a clue from Apple support forums.
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--On February 25, 2005 9:02:09 AM -0800 Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> wrote:
I can only guess, but the underlying issue seems to be with OSX itself. Possibly you could get a clue from Apple support forums.
To which I reply:
Any chance that you ran "Repair Permissions" somewhere in there? And that that screwed things up?
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--On February 25, 2005 9:02:09 AM -0800 Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> wrote:
I can only guess, but the underlying issue seems to be with OSX itself. Possibly you could get a clue from Apple support forums.
To which I reply:
Any chance that you ran "Repair Permissions" somewhere in there? And that that screwed things up?
Hi again, No, I have not done a repair permissions for quite some time, owing to it having a habit of screwing up certain permissions I have set. I guess the other question I would then ask, is it okay to delete:
/usr/local/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck.last
Will Mailman create a new file in place of the old automatically?--
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Terry Allen wrote:
I guess the other question I would then ask, is it okay to delete:
/usr/local/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck.last
Yes
Will Mailman create a new file in place of the old automatically?
Yes
Although at least one poster in the archives said:
The /private/var/mailman/lists/listname/config.pck.last file becomes corrupt. So corrupt that even "sudo rm config.pck.last" won't get rid of it. However "sudo mv config.pck.last config.pck.last.old; sudo rm config.pck.last.old" will get rid of the corrupt file.
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At 10:39 AM +1100 2005-02-26, Terry Allen wrote:
Any chance that you ran "Repair Permissions" somewhere in there? And that that screwed things up?
Hi again, No, I have not done a repair permissions for quite some time, owing to it having a habit of screwing up certain permissions I have set.
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