Thanks for the tips guys, that helped me figure out which values to give those fields in configure. The upgrade seemed to go smoothly, however I can no longer send mail. Here's the error I get in Mailman's logs:
Jun 21 10:50:10 2006 (1861) Uncaught runner exception: 'module' object has no attribute 'OLD_STYLE_PREFIXING' Jun 21 10:50:10 2006 (1861) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 130, in _dispose more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153, in _dopipeline sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/CookHeaders.py", line 83, in process prefix_subject(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/CookHeaders.py", line 274, in prefix_subject old_style = mm_cfg.OLD_STYLE_PREFIXING AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'OLD_STYLE_PREFIXING' Jun 21 10:50:10 2006 (1861) SHUNTING: 1150901409.174751+3b3acb6a64ae7c962b5567a5bc6c9111dc8b213e I'm not sure if i specified but I was going from 2.1.5 to 2.1.8. Best, Ryan Mark Sapiro wrote: > Ryan Steele wrote: > >> I have a question about the options for the configure script. I'm >> upgrading an installation of Mailman to 2.1.8, but I'm not sure what the >> previous sysadmin configured for the --with-mail-gid option. He has >> apparently deleted the mailman-<version> directory, leaving only the >> target installation directory in his wake. Is there any other place >> besides the config.log that would yield the options fed to configure? >> If not explicitly, is there a way to extrapolate this simply from the >> installation directory? Thanks in advance for your help. >> > > > Patrick gave a good hint, but with respect to the CGI wrappers and > --with-cgi-gid. > > For the mail wrapper, run the command > > path/to/mail/mailman post > > The wrapper will check the invoking GID before the list so the absence > of the list in the command is OK. The output should tell you what > group(s) is/are expected. If it complains about the missing list arg, > you ran it as one of the expected groups. > > ------------------------------------------------------ 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