[Mailman-Users] ValueError: math domain error on crontab jobs

[Mark Cooke]

Hi all,

I have been noticing since installing mailman from my RedHat 8.0 cd, 
that I have been getting these cron job errors, they seem to vary, but 
the main errors are:

Cron <mailman at eir> /usr/bin/python -S /var/mailman/cron/gate_news:
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/var/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 40, in ?
     from Mailman import MailList
   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 36, in ?
     from Mailman import Utils
   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 32, in ?
     import random
   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/random.py", line 91, in ?
     NV_MAGICCONST = 4 * _exp(-0.5)/_sqrt(2.0)
ValueError: math domain error

Cron <mailman at eir> /usr/bin/python -S /var/mailman/cron/qrunner:
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/var/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 84, in ?
     from Mailman import Utils
   File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 32, in ?
     import random
   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/random.py", line 91, in ?
     NV_MAGICCONST = 4 * _exp(-0.5)/_sqrt(2.0)
ValueError: math domain error

I've done some hunting, but so far found nothing that I feel is relevant.

Could someone possably, explain what the errros mean and how I could fix 
them.

Apart from these, mailman its is working perfectly ok, on an enclioed 
private testing network.

Cheers

Mark