[Mailman-Users] Subscription flood

[Mark Sapiro]

On 05/14/2014 08:20 AM, Bill Christensen wrote:
> Thanks.
> 
> Running the patch I got:
> 
> patching file /path/to/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py
> patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 53 with fuzz 1 (offset -1 lines).
> 
> (with the actual path in there)


The patch got munged in editing, but that may or may not be an issue.


> When trying to run a subscription I got the "We hit a bug" error.
> 
> Error log says (among other stuff):
> 
> admin(12818):   File "/opt/local/share/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py",
> line 56
>       if listname = 'problem_list':
>                   ^
>   SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> 
> where 'problem_list' had been replaced by the actual list name.


Sorry, that's my mistake. It should be

    if listname == 'problem_list':

i.e., ==, not =.


> Comparing subscribe.py with subscribe.py.bak, it appears that it's in there
> as written.


Then whatever the "patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line" issue was,
the result is probably OK. Just change the = to == and it should be OK.

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