[Mailman-Users] mmsearch now python?

Gerald gcoon at inch.com
Thu Feb 24 02:06:51 CET 2005


Perhaps I'm missing something really obvious. I maintain a server
running the mailman software. It's a FreeBSD 4.9 server running
mailman-2.1.5_2. After the upgrade the mmsearch command will not run
from the cgi directory.

Running it gets:
***
Mailman CGI error!!!
The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being stored in your syslog:

No such file or directory
***

I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out what permission or
problem with apache would cause this since it all looked right. I
installed this from the ports collection. Then I ran across a link in
my history for that server that pulled up listinfo from the cgi-bin.
listinfo worked. Upon further inspection I saw that the mmsearch file
was not updated in the upgrade:

-rwxr-sr-x   1 www      mailman  17738 Feb 19 14:46 admin
-rwxr-sr-x   1 www      mailman  17742 Feb 19 14:46 admindb
-rwxr-sr-x   1 www      mailman  17742 Feb 19 14:46 confirm
-rwxr-sr-x   1 www      mailman  17742 Feb 19 14:46 create
-rwxr-sr-x   1 www      mailman  17754 Feb 19 14:46 edithtml
-rwxr-sr-x   1 www      mailman  17890 Oct  8  2003 htdig
-rwxr-sr-x   1 www      mailman  17754 Feb 19 14:46 listinfo
-rwxr-sr-x   1 www      mailman  17906 Oct  8  2003 mmsearch
-rwxr-sr-x   1 www      mailman  17742 Feb 19 14:46 options
-rwxr-sr-x   1 www      mailman  17742 Feb 19 14:46 private
-rwxr-sr-x   1 www      mailman  17742 Feb 19 14:46 rmlist
-rwxr-sr-x   1 www      mailman  17742 Feb 19 14:46 roster
-rwxr-sr-x   1 www      mailman  17754 Feb 19 14:46 subscribe

Which ones of these guys don't look like the others? *grin*
htdig-3.2.0.b6 is installed on this machine and I found these:
../Mailman/Cgi/mmsearch.py      ../Mailman/Cgi/mmsearch.pyc &

-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  119892 Feb 17 14:26 /usr/local/bin/htdig

Not being a python coder myself, I don't know if I'm supposed to set up
apache to execute the python scripts or if there is a way to compile
these. I'm just really at a loss at the moment for what to do next. The
date on the htdig in /usr/local/bin seems to indicate mailman is using
an old htdig. I don't know how to create/get a newer mmsearch though.

How do I get the mmsearch working again in the cgi directory with the
htdig and web server? The documentation and archives don't seem to
mention mmsearch much.

Thanks for any help or suggestions in advance.

Gerald



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