[Mailman-Users] Mailman 1.0 & OpenBSD 2.5 & Python 1.5b2

[Nicholas Brenckle]

I installed the patch as posted by Tor Houghton (mailman-users : 30
March 1999 -
http://www.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/1999-March/000941.html )
This didnt work for me. I still receive the error on newlist creation
(see below) This is on an OpenBSD 2.5 system and Python 1.5b2.

A little more poking and I found the solution was to set the list to
'openbsd2' instead of 'openbsd' in the posixfile.py lib file.

Is now:        if sys.platform in ('netbsd1', 'freebsd2', 'freebsd3'):
Change to:       if sys.platform in ('netbsd1', 'freebsd2', 'freebsd3',
'openbsd2'):

There are two lines that contain the same thing (checking for netbsd and
freebsd) add the 'openbsd2' to each of them.

-Nick

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Nicholas Brenckle                   Yale University School of Medicine
nicholas.brenckle at yale.edu                     ITS Med - PO Box 208089
203-737-2377                                  New Haven, CT 06520-8089


Error Message I was getting before the fix to the posixfile.py:

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "bin/newlist", line 146, in ?
    raise SystemExit(main(sys.argv))
  File "bin/newlist", line 93, in main
    newlist.Create(list_name, owner_mail, pw)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 724, in Create
    self.Lock()
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1379, in Lock
    self._lock_file.lock('w|', 1)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/posixfile.py", line 190, in lock
    flock = fcntl.fcntl(self._file_.fileno(), cmd, flock)
IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument