[Mailman-Developers] Re: Info on newlist bug

[Phil Barnett]

On 15 Nov 2000, at 0:00, Tanner Lovelace wrote:

> Phil Barnett wrote:
> > 
> > Here is the traceback for the failure. Now that I think about it,
> > it's probably that the bin/newlist executable is looking at the 0
> > parameter instead of the 1 parameter.
> > 
> 
> At the beginning of main there is this line of code
> that parses the arguments.
> 
> opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'ho:',
>                            ['help', 'output='])
> 
> getopt takes the passed in arguments (sys.argv[1:])
> and removes the ones it takes care of leaving the
> rest in the "args" variable.  Unfortunately, later
> on when reading the command line arguments they
> are read from the original argv instead of the
> modified args.  Attached is a patch that fixes 
> this problem.

Great, that fixed newlist.

Thanks. 

At the same time newlist stopped working, my archives and web 
interfaces all stopped working. I wonder what else is hiding...

How do we start troubleshooting this?

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