[Mailman-Developers] Bug#57223: mailman: gate_news problems (fwd)

[Thomas Wouters]

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On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 08:09:18PM +0000, Lazarus Long wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 06:16:06PM +0100, Gergely Madarasz wrote:

>  > Thanks.
>  > Lazarus, please test this patch, and notify me if it worked for you :)

> Patching file `gate_news' using Plan A...
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 125.
> 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to gate_news.rej

Ok, the patch doesn't work for mailman-1.1 gate_news ;P I've attached a
version that should. Let me know if it still fails, or if you're using a
different version of mailman.

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--- cron/gate_news.orig	Mon Feb  7 22:47:52 2000
+++ cron/gate_news	Mon Feb  7 22:53:23 2000
@@ -76,7 +76,16 @@
         # update the gate_watermarks file.  we'll actually do the gating in a
         # child process
         conn = nntplib.NNTP(mlist.nntp_host)
-        r,c,first,last,n = conn.group(mlist.linked_newsgroup)
+        try:
+            r,c,first,last,n = conn.group(mlist.linked_newsgroup)
+        except nntplib.error_perm:
+            # We got an error 500, probably meaning that the 'group' command
+            # is not implemented.  A likely scenario causing this is when
+            # running the Mailman gateway on the same machine as the news
+            # server; the server defaults to news feed mode.  We need to set
+            # the connection to reader mode first.
+            conn.shortcmd('mode reader')
+            r,c,first,last,n = conn.group(mlist.linked_newsgroup)
         first = int(first)
         last = int(last)
         wm = watermarks.get(name, 0)

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