[Mailman-Users] I am a new Mailman user

[Tim Litwiller]

Mark Sapiro wrote:

>Tim Litwiller wrote:
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>>judging by that :
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>>DEFAULT_URL = none
>>Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>>NameError: name 'none' is not defined
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>>should line 94 be set  to
>>DEFAULT_URL = "none" as that doens't give an error
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>It looks to me as though it did give an error as it should
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>>NameError: name 'none' is not defined
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>If you just type
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>DEFAULT_URL = None
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>at the python prompt, it should give no error, but that isn't the
>issue. The issue is whether or not there is any actual problem with
>your Defaults.py or perhaps with Defaults.pyc (the compiled version).
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>Did you try actually cd to the Mailman directory, invoke python and
>type "from Defaults import *" as I suggested. If you do that and it
>gives no error, then there is no actual problem and no reason for the
>original error you quoted.
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>If you do that and it gives the error, and you then remove Defaults.pyc
>and try again and it is OK, then the problem was that Defaults.pyc was
>corrupted and it is now fixed. If the error doesn't go away, then
>there is some problem with that line in Defaults.py, but it didn't
>seem so from your previous post.
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>Also, if this was only a single error occurrence, it will probably
>remain a mystery, as normally, /opt/mailman/cron/gate_news is run by
>cron every 5 minutes.
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>--
>Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
>San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
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I didn't get an error doing what you said except on the

DEFAULT_URL = None 

line.  But now it doesn't error.