Pete Holsberg wrote:

I installed python 1.5.2 on this solaris 2.7 system and then mailman 2 beta 4 using

./configure --with-mail-uid=mailman --with-cgi-uid=nobody make install

When I ran bin/check_perms, I got this message:

Traceback (innermost last): File "bin/check_perms", line 35, in ? import paths ImportError: No module named paths

Did I miss a step somewhere?

Must be, since Mailman pretty surely runs in a lot of places...

Try this:

1. check to see that you've got paths.py in your ~mailman/bin

2):

cd ~mailman <path-to-python>/python <path-to-python-lib>/pdb.py bin/check_perms

<string>(0)?() (Pdb) s <string>(1)?() (Pdb) s bin/check_perms(0)?() (Pdb) s bin/check_perms(27)?() -> """ (Pdb) s bin/check_perms(29)?() -> import sys (Pdb) p sys.path ['bin', '/usr/local/lib/python1.5', '/usr/local/lib/python1.5/', '/usr/local/lib /python1.5/plat-sunos5', '/usr/local/lib/python1.5/lib-tk', '/usr/local/lib/pyth on1.5/lib-dynload'] (Pdb) q

That 'bin' at the front of the path is what allows check_perms to find paths.py in bin.

Something must be different about your installation.