[Mailman-Users] Cron error: /home/mailman/cron/gate_news

[Dan Mick]

It's from the "gate_news" cron job.  If you're not gatewaying to a
newsgroup, the right answer is probably "remove that cron job from
mailman's crontab".


> I just noticed the 5,131 copies of the following mail, sitting in mailman's 
> mailbox (for some reason they didn't come to me).
> 
> I have no idea what this means.

Well, you *could* look around a bit; did you at least try looking for
"gate_news" in all the Mailman sources?  That would have given you
a huge clue.

> I'm using Mailman 1.1:
> 
> Subject: Cron <mailman at steed> /usr/bin/python /home/mailman/cron/gate_news
> 
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 119, in ?
>     main()
>   File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 58, in main
>     mlist = MailList.MailList(name, lock=0)
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 62, in __init__
>     self.Load()
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 810, in Load
>     raise Errors.MMBadListError, 'Failed to access config info'
> MMBadListError: Failed to access config info
> 
> -- 
> David B. O'Donnell - atropos at fates.org - http://www.fates.org/
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