OK, I found something extremely odd. For some reason, the Utils.pyc in /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Logging direcotry is being removed and then the compile of it seems to fail and I'm left with a 0 byte file. It is owned by the daemon user and later it gets compiled and is owned by the mailman user.
# ls -l total 60 -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 3380 May 31 08:39 Logger.py -rw-r--r-- 1 www mailman 3175 May 31 08:43 Logger.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 2559 May 31 08:39 MultiLogger.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 2133 May 31 08:43 MultiLogger.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 3204 May 31 08:39 StampedLogger.py -rw-r--r-- 1 www mailman 2933 May 31 08:43 StampedLogger.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 2221 May 31 08:39 Syslog.py -rw-r--r-- 1 www mailman 1709 May 31 08:43 Syslog.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 1912 May 31 08:39 Utils.py -rw-r--r-- 1 daemon mailman 0 Oct 21 09:27 Utils.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 785 May 31 08:39 __init__.py -rw-r--r-- 1 www mailman 126 May 31 08:43 __init__.pyc # ls -l total 64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 3380 May 31 08:39 Logger.py -rw-r--r-- 1 www mailman 3175 May 31 08:43 Logger.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 2559 May 31 08:39 MultiLogger.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 2133 May 31 08:43 MultiLogger.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 3204 May 31 08:39 StampedLogger.py -rw-r--r-- 1 www mailman 2933 May 31 08:43 StampedLogger.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 2221 May 31 08:39 Syslog.py -rw-r--r-- 1 www mailman 1709 May 31 08:43 Syslog.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 1912 May 31 08:39 Utils.py -rw-r--r-- 1 mailman mailman 1308 Oct 21 09:30 Utils.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 785 May 31 08:39 __init__.py -rw-r--r-- 1 www mailman 126 May 31 08:43 __init__.pyc -- Dan Szkola Sr Unix Systems Programmer NOrthern Illinois University ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp