I realized recently that the accoutn I was sending mailman's cron output to was not actually checking mail.

So, after I checked I saw tons (like several hundred a day) of this:

Subject: Cron <mailman@syth> /usr/bin/python -S /Users/mailman/cron/gate_news

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 270, in ? main() File "/Users/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 250, in main process_lists(lock) File "/Users/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 185, in process_lists mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0) File "/Users/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 101, in __init__ self.Load() File "/Users/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 555, in Load dict, e = self.__load(file) File "/Users/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 521, in __load fp = open(dbfile) IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Users/mailman/lists/chat-backup/config.pck'

OK, no problem I think, I'll just check_perms -f

bin/check_perms -f Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/check_perms", line 331, in ? checkmta() File "bin/check_perms", line 266, in checkmta __import__(modname) File "/Users/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Manual.py", line 23, in ? from Mailman import Message File "/Users/mailman/Mailman/Message.py", line 23, in ? import email.Message File "/Users/mailman/pythonlib/email/__init__.py", line 32, in ? from email.Parser import Parser as _Parser File "/Users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 12, in ? from email import Message File "/Users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Message.py", line 14, in ? from email import Utils File "/Users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Utils.py", line 8, in ? import socket File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/socket.py", line 41, in ? from _socket import * ImportError: No module named _socket

What's odd is the lists are all working, but somewhere python got munged. Anyone have any idea how to fix this?

# python -v # /usr/local/lib/python2.2/site.pyc matches /usr/local/lib/python2.2/site.py import site # precompiled from /usr/local/lib/python2.2/site.pyc # /usr/local/lib/python2.2/os.pyc matches /usr/local/lib/python2.2/os.py import os # precompiled from /usr/local/lib/python2.2/os.pyc import posix # builtin # /usr/local/lib/python2.2/posixpath.pyc matches /usr/local/lib/python2.2/posixpath.py import posixpath # precompiled from /usr/local/lib/python2.2/posixpath.pyc # /usr/local/lib/python2.2/stat.pyc matches /usr/local/lib/python2.2/stat.py import stat # precompiled from /usr/local/lib/python2.2/stat.pyc # /usr/local/lib/python2.2/UserDict.pyc matches /usr/local/lib/python2.2/UserDict.py import UserDict # precompiled from /usr/local/lib/python2.2/UserDict.pyc Python 2.2 (#1, 07/14/02, 23:25:09) [GCC Apple cpp-precomp 6.14] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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