[Mailman-Users] Error during 1st install

[David Mir]

My first question is is there a way to search the archive of mailman mailing 
list?  If so can some one send me a link it will cut down on any repetitive 
posting by me :)

As long as I'm here though my question is :

I'm running a straight RH7.3 system (updated via up2date) I am running courier 
as MTA and I have successfully added my mailman aliases etc.  I installed 
mailman via RPM (mailman-2.0.11-1) everything "seemed to install fine, and 
even the web page comes up, newlists, checkperm all work.  yet when I try to 
subscribe to a list (via web) this error pops up in the browser:
********************************************************************************
Bug in Mailman version 2.0.11

We're sorry, we hit a bug!

Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of 
traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but the 
webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. 
********************************************************************************


Mailman error log looks like this:

Jul 19 10:11:21 2002 admin(29069): 
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
admin(29069): [----- Mailman Version: 2.0.11 -----]
admin(29069): [----- Traceback ------]
admin(29069): Traceback (innermost last):
admin(29069):   File "/var/mailman/scripts/driver", line 96, in run_main
admin(29069):     main()
admin(29069):   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py", line 76, in main
admin(29069):     process_form(mlist, doc)
admin(29069):   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py", line 187, in 
process_form
admin(29069):     mlist.AddMember(email, pw, digest, remote)
admin(29069):   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1007, in 
AddMember
admin(29069):     text)
admin(29069):   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Message.py", line 211, in __init__
admin(29069):     OutgoingMessage.__init__(self, text)
admin(29069):   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Message.py", line 205, in __init__
admin(29069):     self['Message-ID'] = Utils.make_msgid(idstring='Mailman')
admin(29069):   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 769, in make_msgid
admin(29069):     idhost = socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())[0]
admin(29069): error: host not found
admin(29069): [----- Python Information -----]
admin(29069): sys.version    = 1.5.2 (#1, Apr  3 2002, 18:16:26)  [GCC 2.96 
20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2
admin(29069): sys.executable = /usr/bin/python
admin(29069): sys.prefix     = /usr
admin(29069): sys.exec_prefix= /usr
admin(29069): sys.path       = /usr
admin(29069): sys.platform   = linux-i386
~~~~then some stuff about html (no errors though!)~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I see the "host not found" but the server's DNS works fine (including 
localhost, etc.) The mailman folder is owned by root and mailman group (it 
did complain about some perm when I first executed check perm, but I fixed 
it).

Any ideas?

Thanks

-- 
David Mir
System Administrator
Soar Technology, Inc.
3600 Green Ct, Ste 600
Ann Arbor, MI  48105-2588
734-327-8000 ext. 222
734-913-8537 (Fax)
www.soartech.com
mir at soartech.com