[Mailman-Users] Sudden error

[Dan Mick]

Your footer probably has a "%C" (where C is some format character)
in it that you didn't intend.  Use config_list to dump the footer
text and post it.

> The ~/mailman/logs/error file is too big because the data:
> 
> Oct 30 08:10:00 2001 (11866) Delivery exception: not enough 
> arguments for format string
> Oct 30 08:10:00 2001 (11866) Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py", line 82, 
> in do_pipeline
>     func(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Decorate.py", line 41, in 
> process
>     footer = string.replace(mlist.msg_footer % d, '\r\n', '\n')
> TypeError: not enough arguments for format string
> 
> Is being written to the file several times a second.
> 
> Reference the first note I have changed code and received a different 
> error.
> 
> Regards
> MikeT
> 
> 
> On 30 Oct 2001, at 15:43, Greg Ward wrote:
> > Sounds like you have an out-of-control log file on a system with no
> > large file support.  (Or at least your Python doesn't have it; I think
> > the kernel, filesystem, libc, and Python all need to cooperate for files
> > > 2 GB to work.)
> > 
> > The problem is not that Mailman is crashing because of a humongous
> > log file; the problem is that you have a humongous log file in the first
> > place!  Take a look in ~mailman/logs -- it should be pretty obvious
> > which the 2 GB file is.  Take a look in it and see if you can figure out
> > why it got so big.
> > 
> >         Greg
> > 
> 
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