[Mailman-Users] Qmail & BSD further problems

John Wards j.wards at sportnetwork.net
Fri Sep 13 16:58:44 CEST 2002


I do this:
 /usr/local/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron qrunner

I get this out!

Dzcrontab.in
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Any clues?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Carnes" <jonc at nc.rr.com>
To: "John Wards" <j.wards at sportnetwork.net>
Cc: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Qmail & BSD further problems


> So is the problem that the mail is simply sitting in the Mailman queue
> directory without being delivered?
>
> Try running qrunner by hand:
>   su - mailman
>   /usr/local/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/qrunner
>
> Check your qmail log files before and after running the above.  Do the
> same with your mailman log files.
>
> Good Luck
>
> Jon Carnes
> ===
> On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 04:22, John Wards wrote:
> > Can anyone help me on this? I really need a mailing list. If it is
> > impossible to get mailman working on my system could someone please
recomend
> > another mailing list system that would run on freeBSD. I have hunted and
> > hunted for one but I can't find one where users can reply to emails like
> > this!
> >
> > Cheers
> > John Wards
> > SportNetwork.net
> >
> >
> > > I cannot seem to be able to send messages to my lists or reply to
> > subscribe
> > > to lists. I have included all the logs that I can think of. If I have
> > missed
> > > any that would be helpful please say.
> > >
> > > I have checked my qmail logs and everything seems fine:
> > > @400000003d80510d0c7a2914 new msg 898
> > > @400000003d80510d0c88d2fc info msg 898: bytes 1028 from
> > > <j.wards at sportnetwork.net> qp 73230 uid 1005
> > > @400000003d80510d0d208304 starting delivery 6510: msg 898 to local
> > > mailman-test at lists.sportnetwork.net
> > > @400000003d80510d0ec9936c status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
> > > @400000003d80510e092316a4 delivery 6510: success: did_0+0+1/
> > > @400000003d80510e092b5bd4 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
> > > @400000003d80510e092f4ba4 end msg 898
> > >
> > > I look in my /home/mailman/qfiles/ dir and i see the file:
> > >
> > > 8b41040d30571a9389822ef8c26bbd728d5bb11c.msg AND
> > > 8b41040d30571a9389822ef8c26bbd728d5bb11c.db
> > >
> > > Which contain:
> > >
> > > >From j.wards at sportnetwork.net Thu Sep 12 08:32:03 2002
> > > Return-Path: <j.wards at sportnetwork.net>
> > > Delivered-To: mailman-test at lists.sportnetwork.net
> > > Received: (qmail 73230 invoked from network); 12 Sep 2002
08:32:03 -0000
> > > Received: from smtp-relay01.tc.dsvr.net (212.69.192.4)
> > >   by ns1.sportnetwork.net with SMTP; 12 Sep 2002 08:32:03 -0000
> > > Received: from [212.69.194.109] (helo=durham.serve.co.uk)
> > >  by smtp-relay01.tc.dsvr.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #3)
> > >  id 17pPLd-00055v-00
> > >  for test at lists.sportnetwork.net; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:29:13 +0100
> > > Received: from JOHNCOMP (dagroup.demon.co.uk [194.222.172.210])
> > >  by durham.serve.co.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g8C8T8512838
> > >  for <test at lists.sportnetwork.net>; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:29:10 +0100
> > > Message-ID: <00a701c25a37$0190e790$3100a8c0 at JOHNCOMP>
> > > From: "John Wards" <j.wards at sportnetwork.net>
> > > To: <test at lists.sportnetwork.net>
> > > Subject: test
> > > Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:32:54 +0100
> > > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > > Content-Type: text/plain;
> > >  charset="iso-8859-1"
> > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> > > X-Priority: 3
> > > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> > > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
> > > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
> > >
> > > test
> > > -------------------------------//E-oF
> > >
> > > AND
> > >
> > > {s
> > > -----------------------------//E-of
> > >
> > > I do crontab -l as mailman user (I double checked by typing whoami) I
get
> > > this
> > >
> > > # At 5PM every day, mail reminders to admins as to pending requests
> > > 0 17 * * * /usr/local/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/checkdbs
> > > #
> > > # Noon, mail digests for lists that do periodic as well as threshhold
> > > delivery.
> > > 0 12 * * * /usr/local/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/senddigests
> > > #
> > > # 5 AM on the first of each month, mail out password reminders.
> > > 0 5 1 * * /usr/local/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/mailpasswds
> > > #
> > > # Every 5 mins, try to gate news to mail.  You can comment this one
out
> > > # if you don't want to allow gating, or don't have any going on right
now,
> > > # or want to exclusively use a callback strategy instead of polling.
> > > 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/local/bin/python -S
> > > /home/mailman/cron/gate_news
> > > #
> > > # At 3:27am every night, regenerate the gzip'd archive file.  Only
> > > # turn this on if the internal archiver is used and
> > > # GZIP_ARCHIVE_TXT_FILES is false in mm_cfg.py
> > > 27 3 * * * /usr/local/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip
> > > #
> > > # Retry failed deliveries once per minute.
> > > * * * * * /usr/local/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/qrunner
> > >
> > > I look in the cron logs:
> > >
> > > Sep 12 09:45:00 www /usr/sbin/cron[73800]: (root) CMD
> > > (/usr/local/controlpanel/cronjobs/restart_all.sh > /dev/null)
> > > Sep 12 09:45:00 www /usr/sbin/cron[73801]: (root) CMD
(/usr/libexec/atrun)
> > > Sep 12 09:45:00 www /usr/sbin/cron[73802]: (root) CMD
> > > (/usr/local/bin/mrtg --logging /usr/local/mrtg/mrtg.log
> > > /usr/local/mrtg/mrtg.cfg)
> > > Sep 12 09:45:00 www /usr/sbin/cron[73803]: (nobody) CMD
> > > (/home/oasis/public_html/mgmt/minutely_maint.php)
> > > Sep 12 09:45:00 www /usr/sbin/cron[73804]: (mailman) CMD
> > > (/usr/local/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/qrunner)
> > > Sep 12 09:45:00 www /usr/sbin/cron[73805]: (mailman) CMD
> > > (/usr/local/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/gate_news)
> > > Sep 12 09:45:00 www /usr/sbin/cron[73806]: (root) CMD (
> > > /usr/local/controlpanel/cronjobs/mail_log.pl > /dev/null)
> > > Sep 12 09:46:00 www /usr/sbin/cron[73920]: (mailman) CMD
> > > (/usr/local/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/qrunner)
> > > Sep 12 09:47:00 www /usr/sbin/cron[73950]: (mailman) CMD
> > > (/usr/local/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/qrunner)
> > > Sep 12 09:48:00 www /usr/sbin/cron[73988]: (mailman) CMD
> > > (/usr/local/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/qrunner)
> > > Sep 12 09:49:00 www /usr/sbin/cron[74045]: (mailman) CMD
> > > (/usr/local/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/qrunner)
> > > Sep 12 09:50:00 www /usr/sbin/cron[74106]: (root) CMD (
> > > /usr/local/controlpanel/cronjobs/mail_log.pl > /dev/null)
> > > Sep 12 09:50:00 www /usr/sbin/cron[74107]: (root) CMD
(/usr/libexec/atrun)
> > > Sep 12 09:50:00 www /usr/sbin/cron[74108]: (root) CMD
> > > (/usr/local/bin/mrtg --logging /usr/local/mrtg/mrtg.log
> > > /usr/local/mrtg/mrtg.cfg)
> > > Sep 12 09:50:00 www /usr/sbin/cron[74109]: (mailman) CMD
> > > (/usr/local/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/qrunner)
> > > Sep 12 09:50:00 www /usr/sbin/cron[74110]: (mailman) CMD
> > > (/usr/local/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/gate_news)
> > > Sep 12 09:50:00 www /usr/sbin/cron[74111]: (nobody) CMD
> > > (/home/oasis/public_html/mgmt/minutely_maint.php)
> > > Sep 12 09:51:00 www /usr/sbin/cron[74172]: (mailman) CMD
> > > (/usr/local/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/qrunner)
> > > Sep 12 09:52:00 www /usr/sbin/cron[74205]: (mailman) CMD
> > > (/usr/local/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/qrunner)
> > > Sep 12 09:53:00 www /usr/sbin/cron[74235]: (mailman) CMD
> > > (/usr/local/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/qrunner)
> > > Sep 12 09:54:00 www /usr/sbin/cron[74280]: (mailman) CMD
> > > (/usr/local/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/qrunner)
> > >
> > > oh and ~mailman/.qmail-default is set up like:
> > >
> > > |preline /usr/local/bin/python /home/mailman/qmail-to-mailman.py
> > >
> > > Think thats it.........
> > >
> > > I am most confuzed.....everything seems to be fine but I am not
getting
> > any
> > > messages.........
> > >
> > > HELP!
> > >
> > > Oh I have read through every readme supplyied and set up my system as
> > > suggested. I have also searched through the archives with the key
words
> > > qmail and bsd.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > John Wards
> > > SportNetwork.net
> > >
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