[Mailman-Users] how to enable TRACEBACK for mailman "bug" errors?

[will trillich]

On 11/7/06, will trillich <will at serensoft.com> wrote:
> On 11/7/06, Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net> wrote:
> > will trillich wrote:
> > >how do we ENABLE (uninhibit) the display of traceback in the web-page
> > >error message?
> >
> > The traceback and associated error info should be in Mailman's 'error'
>
> i agree, it should. but it apparently isn't:
>
> # ls -lt /var/log/mailman/error
> -rw-r--r-- 1 list list 0 2006-11-06 12:31 /var/log/mailman/error
> # ls -lt /var/log/mailman/ | head
> total 524
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 list     list   2032 2006-11-07 19:48 bounce
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 list     list   4487 2006-11-07 19:48 smtp
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 list     list  16727 2006-11-07 17:38 post
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 list     list    155 2006-11-07 08:41 vette
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 list     list    729 2006-11-07 06:25 qrunner
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 list     list      0 2006-11-07 06:25 locks
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 list     list      0 2006-11-07 06:25 smtp-failure
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 list     list   5777 2006-11-07 06:04 smtp.1
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 list     list    534 2006-11-06 22:41 smtp-failure.1
>
> and this, just after a page-refresh with the bug bomb, and everything.
>
> whatever the problem is, it's probably the same thing that's
> interfering with error-log output (or perhaps, this being a debian
> system, there's something else different going on).

indeed it was -- permissions/ownership on the log files themselves
were making apache very unhappy. not sure if this was upstream or
debian-specific, but all is harmonious in mailman-land again.

thanks!

-- 
will trillich
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