[PLUG] Mail Man Help!

[Bruce Kingsland]

Jeme A Brelin's Log: StarDate 0429.1656:
> 
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Bruce Kingsland wrote:
> > Where does this come from, and how do I make it go away!
> > 
> > Subject: Cron <mailman at phoenix> /usr/bin/python -S /var/mailman/cron/qrunner
> > 
> > Traceback (innermost last):
> >   File "/var/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 85, in ?
> >     from Mailman import MailList
> > EOFError: EOF read where object expected
> 
> It comes from the queue manager for the Mailman mailing list system.

Actually, I found a cron job that calls it once a minute. I commented
out that line in the cron job, but it still runs. I dunno why.

> Without knowing more, I'm not sure how to tell you what to fix.  But
> mailman is pretty finicky about file permissions and ownership and such.
> 
> I would first try going into ~mailman/bin and running ./checkperms as the
> mailman user and seeing what happens then.  ./checkperms -f will actually
> fix the permission problems it finds, but be sure you see what they are
> first.

Did that, but the script fails:

[root at defiant mailman]# bin/check_perms
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "bin/check_perms", line 50, in ?
    MAILMAN_GRPNAME = grp.getgrgid(MAILMAN_GID)[0]
TypeError: illegal argument type for built-in operation

executing with -f gives the same error.

> If you have no need to host mailing lists on that machine, you can just
> remove the package.

True, but then I wouldn't learn how to use the package. I just want it
to stop sending me lotsa mail, and to stop using cycles, until I'm
ready to start learning how to use it.

-bk
-- 
Bruce Kingsland
Kingsland Konsulting
brucek at kingkon.com
503-936-1655
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