[Mailman-Users] Qmail & BSD further problems
Ron Jarrell
jarrell at vt.edu
Fri Sep 13 16:59:21 CEST 2002
At 03:58 PM 9/13/02 +0100, John Wards wrote:
>I do this:
> /usr/local/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron qrunner
>
>I get this out!
>
>Dzcrontab.in
> ^
>SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
>Any clues?
Yea... Re-read the example below and fix your typo :-). There's no space
between cron and qrunner, it's a slash... You told it to run a directory,
and python is finding the internal binary format of the directory entries
to be not very understandable as source code.
>----- 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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