[Mailman-Users] setting up mailman

[Mike Wharton]

When I enter the suggested commands I get comprehensive details of python
using 'help', however 'copyright' and others return 'command not found'


> python
> Python 2.4.1 (#1, May 27 2005, 18:02:40)
> [GCC 3.3.3 (cygwin special)] on cygwin
> copyright
sh: line 1: copyright: command not found
> help
GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu)
These shell commands are defined internally.  Type `help' to see this list.
Type `help name' to find out more about the function `name'.
Use `info bash' to find out more about the shell in general.
Use `man -k' or `info' to find out more about commands not in this list.


Following is the result of the x = prompt... etc

> copyright
sh: line 1: copyright: command not found
> x = raw_input('Prompt: ')
> answer
sh: line 1: answer: command not found
> x = raw_input('Prompt: ')
> Prompt: answer
sh: line 1: Prompt:: command not found
> print x
sh: line 1: print: command not found


I am a total newbie when it comes to linix and am learning as I go so I may
not have fully understood your suggestion. I typed these into the command
line in the webmin interface on my server.

Still no luck.....

Mike

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:msapiro at value.net] 
Sent: Saturday, 19 November 2005 7:38 AM
To: support at presdata.com.au; mailman-users at python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] setting up mailman

Mike Wharton wrote:
>
>When I attempt to run /var/mailman/bin/newlist mailman  to create the 
>newsite I get the following error...
>
>> /var/mailman/bin/newlist mailman
>Enter the email of the person running the list: Traceback (most recent 
>call
>last):
>  File "/var/mailman/bin/newlist", line 219, in ?
>    main()
>  File "/var/mailman/bin/newlist", line 139, in main
>    owner_mail = raw_input(
>EOFError: EOF when reading a line
>
>Can anyone offer a suggestion as to what I might have missed?

This error occurs because the Python raw_input() function received an end of
file. Did you type control-D instead of an email address followed by <CR>?
It doesn't look like it in the above, but is it possible that your shell has
somehow redirected standard input to a file or /dev/null instead of the
terminal?

Can you successfully run the following:

$ python
Python 2.4.1 (#1, May 27 2005, 18:02:40) [GCC 3.3.3 (cygwin special)] on
cygwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
information.
>>> x = raw_input('Prompt: ')
Prompt: answer
>>> print x
answer
>>>


-- 
Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan