[Mailman-Users] socket.gethostname()

[John Poltorak]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 04:57:12PM +0000, Richard Barrett wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, November 6, 2003, at 05:43  pm, John Poltorak wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > I'm getting an error in LockFile.py at this point (line 180) :-
> >
> >         self.__tmpfname = '%s.%s.%d' % (
> >             lockfile, socket.gethostname(), os.getpid())
> >
> > It looks as though the function socket.gethostname() is causing this
> > error.
> >
> > How can I display the value returned by this funtion and where should  
> > it
> > be retrieved from? ie should it be using $HOSTNAME ?
> >
> 
> socket is a standard Python module. Its gethostname() function should  
> return the same as the hostname shell command. From the command line  
> you should be able to run python and get something like this:

Many thanks for this.

 
> mailman at mailman2:~> hostname
> mailman2
> mailman at mailman2:~> python
> Python 2.2.2 (#3, Feb 11 2003, 16:57:53)
> [GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> import socket
>  >>> socket.gethostname()
> 'mailman2'

Where does value originate and should it match anything within Mailman's 
configuration?

Is there any way to dump the value of  self.__tmpfname to the logfile from 
the lines above ?

This is what currently appears in the error log:-


admin(648):   File "../Mailman/MailList.py", line 817, in __save
admin(648):     fname_tmp = fname + '.tmp.%s.%d' % (socket.gethostname(), os.getpid())
admin(648): error: (14, 'Bad address')


I'm assuming that socket.gethostname() is the culprit.


-- 
John