Re: [Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

2012-05-09 Thread Dennis Putnam
I've made the decision to abandon Mandriva and migrate to Centos. I have mailman up an running (sort of) but now have the opposite problem. This is a vanilla install of Apache so the only config file is mailman.conf at this time. The cgi extension does not exist, in cgi-bin, on this installation

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

2012-05-09 Thread David
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Dennis Putnam d...@bellsouth.net wrote: I've made the decision to abandon Mandriva and migrate to Centos. If you wanted to migrate to Ubuntu 12.04, I could give you all the steps for getting Mailman up and running easily. But someone else will probably be able

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

2012-05-09 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam wrote: I've made the decision to abandon Mandriva and migrate to Centos. I have mailman up an running (sort of) but now have the opposite problem. This is a vanilla install of Apache so the only config file is mailman.conf at this time. The cgi extension does not exist, in cgi-bin,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

2012-05-09 Thread Dennis Putnam
Thanks for the reply. I think you'll it pretty much vanilla. mm_py.cfg --- # -*- python -*- # Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2000,2001,2002 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. #

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

2012-05-09 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam wrote: mailman.conf -= - # Directives for the mailman web interface Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/ ScriptAliasMatch ^/mailman/([^/]*)(.*)$

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

2012-05-09 Thread Dennis Putnam
Yep, I copied the config from my Mandriva installation thinking they would be compatible. I was wrong and restoring the default fixed it. Thanks. On 5/9/2012 7:36 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Dennis Putnam wrote: mailman.conf

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

2012-05-04 Thread Dennis Putnam
Thanks. The cgi scripts do have the cgi extension on them. I put CGIEXT = '' in mm_cfg.py which, of course fixed the problem. On 5/3/2012 5:10 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Dennis Putnam wrote: Thanks for the reply. You are correct in that it does not exist in mm_cfg.py. However, in Defaults.py it is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

2012-05-04 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam wrote: Thanks. The cgi scripts do have the cgi extension on them. I put CGIEXT = '' in mm_cfg.py which, of course fixed the problem. It may have fixed the problem for the moment, but it is the wrong way to do it. If the cgi-bin/* wrappers have .cgi extensions, the proper value

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

2012-05-03 Thread Dennis Putnam
Thanks for the reply. You are correct in that it does not exist in mm_cfg.py. However, in Defaults.py it is set to CGIEXT = '.cgi' The question then becomes, where should I fix it (presumably in mm_cfg-py). Leave it to Mandriva to change what is normal for everyone else. On 5/2/2012 7:44 PM,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

2012-05-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam wrote: Thanks for the reply. You are correct in that it does not exist in mm_cfg.py. However, in Defaults.py it is set to CGIEXT = '.cgi' The question then becomes, where should I fix it (presumably in mm_cfg-py). Leave it to Mandriva to change what is normal for everyone else.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

2012-05-02 Thread Dennis Putnam
Of course I did not expect this to be easy. After restoring the Mailman directory as suggested, mailman will not start: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/sbin/mailmanctl, line 106, in module from Mailman import mm_cfg ImportError: Bad magic number in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

2012-05-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam wrote: Of course I did not expect this to be easy. After restoring the Mailman directory as suggested, mailman will not start: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/sbin/mailmanctl, line 106, in module from Mailman import mm_cfg ImportError: Bad magic number in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

2012-05-02 Thread Dennis Putnam
On to the next layer of the onion. :-( Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/sbin/mailmanctl, line 106, in module from Mailman import mm_cfg ImportError: cannot import name mm_cfg On 5/2/2012 9:48 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Dennis Putnam wrote: Of course I did not expect this to be

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

2012-05-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mark Sapiro wrote: It appears your system Python is now different from the one that compiled all the .pyc files. Just do rm -r /path/to/Mailman/*.pyc I responded without really thinking. I don't think that will work completely. It will remove the .pyc files immediately subordinate the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

2012-05-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam wrote: On to the next layer of the onion. :-( Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/sbin/mailmanctl, line 106, in module from Mailman import mm_cfg ImportError: cannot import name mm_cfg Did you remove *.py files too? If so, restore and try again removing only *.pyc

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

2012-05-02 Thread Dennis Putnam
Actually I think python itself may be hosed. I am uninstalling it and reinstalling to see if that fixes it. If not then I will try your suggestion. On 5/2/2012 10:06 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Mark Sapiro wrote: It appears your system Python is now different from the one that compiled all the .pyc

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

2012-05-02 Thread Dennis Putnam
I am making progress (I think). When I uninstalled and reinstalled python, it seems to have taken mailman with it. I did a reinstall of mailman and now the daemon and the qrunners start. I can also now access the initial web page with my lists shown. However, when I try to access the management

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

2012-05-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam wrote: I am making progress (I think). When I uninstalled and reinstalled python, it seems to have taken mailman with it. I did a reinstall of mailman and now the daemon and the qrunners start. I can also now access the initial web page with my lists shown. However, when I try to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

2012-05-02 Thread Dennis Putnam
All the cgi files are present. It appears to me that my web server config was unaffected by the botched upgrade attempt. However, I don't know if the mailman or python installs did something. What should I look for in the httpd configuration? On 5/2/2012 11:14 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Dennis

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

2012-05-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam d...@bellsouth.net wrote: All the cgi files are present. It appears to me that my web server config was unaffected by the botched upgrade attempt. However, I don't know if the mailman or python installs did something. What should I look for in the httpd configuration? check your

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

2012-05-02 Thread Dennis Putnam
I seem to recall seeing this problem before but I can't find it in any of my archives. [Wed May 02 13:14:20 2012] [error] [client 74.176.153.13] script not found or unable to stat: /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/admin.cgi.cgi, referer: https://dap002.dyndns-ip.com/mailman/admin Obviously the double

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

2012-05-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam wrote: I seem to recall seeing this problem before but I can't find it in any of my archives. [Wed May 02 13:14:20 2012] [error] [client 74.176.153.13] script not found or unable to stat: /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/admin.cgi.cgi, referer: https://dap002.dyndns-ip.com/mailman/admin

[Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

2012-04-28 Thread Dennis Putnam
As usual my attempt to update Mandriva has destroyed Mailman. This time the update failed and rather than move forward, I reverted back to the working version (2010.2). However, I must have missed something because I am getting the following error when I try to access Mailman web: Apr 28 16:07:42

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

2012-04-28 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 4/28/2012 1:24 PM, Dennis Putnam wrote: As usual my attempt to update Mandriva has destroyed Mailman. This time the update failed and rather than move forward, I reverted back to the working version (2010.2). However, I must have missed something because I am getting the following error

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

2012-04-28 Thread Dennis Putnam
On 4/28/2012 4:57 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 4/28/2012 1:24 PM, Dennis Putnam wrote: As usual my attempt to update Mandriva has destroyed Mailman. This time the update failed and rather than move forward, I reverted back to the working version (2010.2). However, I must have missed something

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)

2012-04-28 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 4/28/2012 3:02 PM, Dennis Putnam wrote: On 4/28/2012 4:57 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 4/28/2012 1:24 PM, Dennis Putnam wrote: As usual my attempt to update Mandriva has destroyed Mailman. This time the update failed and rather than move forward, I reverted back to the working version