[Mailman-Developers] [ mailman-Bugs-615040 ] problem creating newlist

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Bugs item #615040, was opened at 2002-09-26 12:22
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Category: command line scripts
>Group: 2.1 beta
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Out of Date
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Tim White (reverend_timmyd)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: problem creating newlist

Initial Comment:

I get the following when I try to run "newlist":

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/home/admin/src/mailman-2.0.13/bin/newlist", line 
52, in ?
    import paths
ImportError: No module named paths

any ideas?


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>Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw)
Date: 2002-10-27 22:47

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I've since learned that another reason this error can happen
is if the Python you've got doesn't have the distutils
package available.  This happens on Linux when Python is
installed via package manager and the Python "devel" package
isn't installed.  Mailman 2.1b4 has a check for this in its
configure script.


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Comment By: Tim White (reverend_timmyd)
Date: 2002-09-27 15:57

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thanks for the help. However, the guy that installed it for me 
had to hack it up so much to make it work with plesk (my 
virtual host management software, that we've had to write 
some custom scripts to use instead of the ones that came w/ 
mailman...

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Comment By: Tomas Lindroos (skitta)
Date: 2002-09-26 12:43

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Don't run "newlist" from the source directory, run it from the installation  
directory. This is true for some other scripts as well.  
  
Check the installation directory, and you will find a file "paths.py", which is  
correctly imported from "newlist" (and other) scripts. The same library can 
be found in other directories as well (i.e. $install_dir/cron/). 
  
/skitta  

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