[Mailman-Developers] Re: 2.1.4 upgrade problem

[Jason R. Mastaler]

Joel Ebel <jbebel at ncsu.edu> writes:

> This is slackware 9.1 with python 2.3.1.

[...]

>  >>> import os
>  >>> os.fsync
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'fsync'

There was a bug in Python 2.3.1 that caused os.fsync() to go missing.
You should upgrade Python to 2.3.2 or 2.3.3, and also report to
Slackware that they are distributing a buggy version of Python.