At 19:28 08/11/2002, Bryce Tate wrote:
This is a strange error.I am testing mailman for use at my university, and we want to be able to support different MIME types in the archives. I've installed Mhonarc and I followed the directions of a very helpful list member from an earlier post to the group. When I manually run:mhonarc -mbox $prefix/archives/private/yourmaillist.mbox/yourmaillist.mbox -outdir /var/mhonarc/archives/yourmaillist -rcfile /var/mhonarc/archives/yourmaillist/main.mrc All of the messages (if I have any) move over just fine, but new messages are archived automatically...I have this in the /var/log/mailman/error file: Nov 08 14:19:02 2002 qrunner(1884): Traceback (most recent call last): Nov 08 14:19:02 2002 qrunner(1884): File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 213, in ArchiveMail Nov 08 14:19:02 2002 qrunner(1884): self.ExternalArchive(mm_cfg.PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER, txt) Nov 08 14:19:02 2002 qrunner(1884): File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 174, in ExternalArchive Nov 08 14:19:02 2002 qrunner(1884): syslog('error', 'external archiver non-zero exit status: %d\n' % Nov 08 14:19:02 2002 qrunner(1884): TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for >>: 'str' and 'int' Nov 08 14:19:02 2002 (1884) CORRUPT ARCHIVE FOR LIST: testlist
The traceback says Mailman's qrunner was trying to execute the command line you defined via the PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER config variable with the listname concerned plugged in to it.
Mailman does this using the Python os.popen function which provides a writable pipe through which the qrunner feeds the text of the email concerned to (hopefully) Mhonarc's process STDIN.
It looks as though Mailman has checked the exit status of the command returned via the close function on the file type object returned by popen, and found it to be non-zero.
However, when trying to output this exit status to the logfile it has failed because the exit status was not an integer but a string. UNIX command exit status is supposed to be a 16 bit integer.
The question is why the exit status is a string not an integer. I cannot reproduce this despite feeding absolute nonsense commands of various types to os.popen using either the Python 2.2.1 or 1.5.2 I have readily available.
It looks, from information in the traceback, as though you are running MM 2.0.x and not running Python 1.5.2 but a later version.
To get any further, some information about what OS and version and which versions of Mailman and Python you are using may be useful.
It may be that this is a Python bug rather than a Mailman specific problem.
I even created an empty test list (as seen above) and it didn't have any
messages in it. When I sent my first message to the list, the above is
also what the /var/log/mailman/error file reported.
Does anyone know what could be wrong? I'm hoping that i'm not the only
one on this list who has had this problem before. Below is my mm_cfg.py
file. I also have appropriate aliases set in httpd.conf
And other than this Mhonarc issue (and pipermails lack of MIME support)
I've been very pleased with Mailman (and related programs), and my
recommendation will be that we use it.
Thanks for any feedback!
Bryce
#######################################################
# Here's where we get the distributed defaults. #
from Defaults import *
import pwd, grp
##############################################################
# Here's where we override shipped defaults with settings #
# suitable for the RPM package. #
MAILMAN_UID = pwd.getpwnam('mailman')[2]
MAILMAN_GID = grp.getgrnam('mailman')[2]
LOG_DIR = '/var/log/mailman'
QUEUE_DIR = '/var/spool/mailman/qfiles'
##############################################################
# Put YOUR site-specific configuration below, in mm_cfg.py . #
# See Defaults.py for explanations of the values. #
DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = '<MYHOSTNAME>'
DEFAULT_URL = '<MYDEFAULTURL>'
MAILMAN_OWNER = 'mailman-owner@%s' % DEFAULT_HOST_NAME
# Note - if you're looking for something that is imported from mm_cfg, but
you
# didn't find it above, it's probably in Defaults.py.
PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL = '/mhonarchive'
PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_URL = '/mhonarchive'
PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = '/usr/bin/mhonarc -add -outdir
/var/mhonarc/archives/%(listname)s'
PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = '/usr/bin/mhonarc -add -outdir
/var/mhonarc/archives/%(listname)s'
#PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_FILE_DIR = os.path.join(VAR_PREFIX,
'/var/mhonarc/archives/', 'private')
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