[Mailman-Users] Mailman error

[Richard Barrett]

On Saturday, October 25, 2003, at 07:41  pm, John Poltorak wrote:

>
> Can someone help me out here?
>
> I know this is an old version but there is a good reason for it.
>
> Here is part of a Mailman error log:-
>
>
> Oct 24 16:18:31 2003 admin(493):
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> admin(493): [----- Mailman Version: 2.0.13 -----]
> admin(493): [----- Traceback ------]
> admin(493): Traceback (most recent call last):
> admin(493):   File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 96, in  
> run_main
> admin(493):     main()
> admin(493):   File "../Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 63, in main
> admin(493):     FormatAdminOverview()
> admin(493):   File "../Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 201, in  
> FormatAdminOverview
> admin(493):     l = MailList.MailList(n, lock=0)
> admin(493):   File "../Mailman/MailList.py", line 73, in __init__
> admin(493):     self.InitTempVars(name)
> admin(493):   File "../Mailman/MailList.py", line 266, in InitTempVars
> admin(493):     withlogging = mm_cfg.LIST_LOCK_DEBUGGING)
> admin(493):   File "../Mailman/LockFile.py", line 180, in __init__
> admin(493):     self.__tmpfname = '%s.%s.%d' % (
> admin(493): error: (14, 'Bad address')
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> What is wrong here?
>
>
> admin(493): [----- Python Information -----]
> admin(493): sys.version    = 2.2.3 (#0, May 31 2003, 23:15:53) [EMX  
> GCC 2.8.1]
> admin(493): sys.executable = C:\USR\LOCAL\PYTHON223\PYTHON.EXE
> admin(493): sys.prefix     = C:\USR\LOCAL\PYTHON223
> admin(493): sys.exec_prefix= C:\USR\LOCAL\PYTHON223
> admin(493): sys.path       = C:\USR\LOCAL\PYTHON223
> admin(493): sys.platform   = os2emx
> admin(493): [----- Environment Variables -----]
> admin(493):     ENDLIBPATH:
> admin(493):     COMSPEC: C:\OS2\CMD.EXE
> admin(493):     PYTHONPATH: /usr/local/mailman
> admin(493):     DPATH:  
> c:\usr\parmlib;C:\IBMLAN\NETPROG;C:\IBMLAN;C:\MUGLIB;C:\MPTN;C:\IBMCOM; 
> C:\OS2;C:\OS2\SYSTEM;C:\OS2\MDOS\WI
> admin(493):     SERVER_ADMIN: you at your.address
> admin(493):     SCRIPT_NAME: /mailman/admin
> admin(493):     ETC: C:\ETC
> admin(493):     SERVER_SIGNATURE: <address>Apache/2.0.44 (OS/2)  
> PHP/4.3.1 Server at 213.152.37.92 Port 80</address>
>
>
>
>
> LockFile.py contains:-
>
>         self.__tmpfname = '%s.%s.%d' % (
>             lockfile, socket.gethostname(), os.getpid())
>
> How do I find the result of socket.gethostname() ?
>
>

socket is standard Python module with gethostname() one of the  
functions defined in it. See:

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-socket.html#l2h-2416

For instance on my machine, called mailman, and as UID mailman, I can  
run Python from the command line as follows:

mailman at mailman:~> hostname
mailman
mailman at mailman:~> 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 sys, os, socket
 >>> socket.gethostname()
'mailman'
 >>> os.getpid()
27450
 >>> sys.exit()
mailman at mailman:~>

The above is on Linux and I assume that it should work in some similar  
fashion on OS2. If the above barfs when you try it using Python from  
the command line then you probably do not have a Mailman problem but a  
Python port or installation problem.

>
> -- 
> John
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Richard Barrett                               http://www.openinfo.co.uk