[Mailman-Developers] Bug#57223: mailman: gate_news problems (fwd)

[Gergely Madarasz]

Hello,

Any ideas what might cause this ?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 03:01:23 +0000 (UTC)
From: Lazarus Long <lazarus@overdue.dhis.net>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#57223: mailman: gate_news problems
Resent-Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 03:03:28 +0000 (GMT)
Resent-From: Lazarus Long <lazarus@overdue.dhis.net>
Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org
Resent-cc: Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@sztaki.hu>

Package: mailman
Version: 1.1-2
Severity: important

Subject: Cron <list@phoenix> [ -x /usr/bin/python -a -f /usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news ] && /usr/bin/python
+/usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/var/list>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=list>
Date: Mon,  7 Feb 2000 02:55:06 +0000 (UTC)

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 119, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 79, in main
    r,c,first,last,n = conn.group(mlist.linked_newsgroup)
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/nntplib.py", line 208, in group
    resp = self.shortcmd('GROUP ' + name)
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/nntplib.py", line 158, in shortcmd
    return self.getresp()
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/nntplib.py", line 134, in getresp
    raise error_perm, resp
nntplib.error_perm: 500 "GROUP" not implemented; try "help".


-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Kernel Version: Linux phoenix 2.2.14 #1 Thu Jan 6 01:44:28 UTC 2000 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages mailman depends on:
ii  apache                      1.3.9-10                    Versatile, high-performance HTTP server
ii  cron                        3.0pl1-55                   management of regular background processing
ii  libc6                       2.1.2-13                    GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data
ii  logrotate                   3.2-11                      Log rotation utility
ii  python-base                 1.5.2-6                     An interactive object-oriented scripting language.
sendmail	Not installed or no info
ii  postfix-tls                 0.0.19991231pl02+0.51-1     A mail transport agent with RFC2487 encryption
	^^^ (Provides virtual package mail-transport-agent)
ii  apache-ssl                  1.3.9.10+1.37-1             Versatile, high-performance HTTP server with SSL support
	^^^ (Provides virtual package httpd)