[Mailman-Users] Error during 1st install
David Mir
mir at soartech.com
Tue Jul 23 23:21:11 CEST 2002
Thanks all I needed to do was set up reverse lookup and it works now but now
when sending mail to my news group I get this back from the mail server:
<<< Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 501. (Reconfigure to take
501?)
I know the FAQ says to recompile with the --cgi-gid and some other flag (I
forget right now) but I installed this VIA RPM on a 7.3 system. To be
consistent(RPM only system) I would rather not recompile, is there anyway to
change this in the config files?
Thanks!
On Monday 19 August 2002 12:04 pm, Richard Barrett wrote:
> At 10:27 19/07/2002 -0400, David Mir wrote:
>
> Your problem isn't essentially a Mailman one and is probably not a Python
> one either. The Python socket module is only a thin layer over the standard
> UNIX socket library.
>
> You are being told that the DNS on the machine is failing to resolve the
> hostname of the machine.
>
> You can try running python from the command line and calling the socket
> functions and see what you get. For instance on my laptop system I get:
>
> barrett at wickwar:~ > hostname
> wickwar
> barrett at wickwar:~ > python
> Python 2.1 (#1, May 16 2001, 03:35:09)
> [GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)] on linux2
> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>
> >>> import socket
> >>> socket.gethostname()
>
> 'wickwar'
>
> >>> socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())
>
> ('wickwar.ftel.co.uk', ['wickwar'], ['172.16.5.70'])
>
> >>> socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())[0]
>
> 'wickwar.ftel.co.uk'
>
> If in contrast I said (referring to a non-existent host):
> >>> socket.gethostbyaddr('wackwar')
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> socket.error: host not found
>
>
> You could also try the following from the command line to see if the DNS
> can look up the hostname:
>
> hostname | xargs nslookup
> Server: your.dns.server.name
> Address: your dns.server.ip
>
> Name: wickwar.ftel.co.uk
> Address: 172.16.5.70
>
>
> If when you try this you do not get plausible results that fit with what
> you believe your system config is then you need to look at the networking
> related configuration of your machine.
>
> >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
> >
> >
> >
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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
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