[Mailman-Users] Trouble with newlist

[Richard Barrett]

On 7 Mar 2004, at 10:16, Steve Pirk wrote:

> After a supposedly clean install of the latest mailman,
> I get this error when adding a list (even the initial
> mailman list):
>
> mailman at orion:~$ bin/newlist mailman
> Enter the email of the person running the list: someone at deathcon.com
> Initial mailman password:
> To finish creating your mailing list, you must edit your /etc/aliases 
> (or
> equivalent) file by adding the following lines, and possibly running 
> the
> `newaliases' program:
>
> ## mailman mailing list
> mailman:              "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman"
> <snip>
>
> Hit enter to notify mailman owner...
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "bin/newlist", line 219, in ?
>     main()
>   File "bin/newlist", line 212, in main
>     msg.send(mlist)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Message.py", line 233, in send
>     self._enqueue(mlist, **_kws)
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Message.py", line 244, in _enqueue
>     reduced_list_headers = 1,
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py", line 133, in
> enqueue
>     os.fsync(msgfp.fileno())
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'fsync'
>

This looks as though something is wrong with your python installation 
as you are being told that the function fsync in the standard os module 
cannot be found.

What OS are you running and which version of OS, Python and Mailman? 
Have you ckecked compatibility in the MM installation and upgrading 
files.

> and I never recieve confirmation, and the lists does not work:
> Mar  7 01:52:45 mail sm-mta[7671]: i279qjAg007669:
> to="|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman",
> ctladdr=<mailman at mail.pirk.com>
> (2/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=30685, 
> dsn=5.0.0,
> stat=Service unavailable
> Mar  7 01:52:45 mail sm-mta[7671]: i279qjAg007669: i279qjAg007671: DSN:
> Service unavailable
>
> Any ideas?
> -- Steve