Re: [cobalt-users] [RAQ2] Mailman Software

[Dennis <dkc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cain-

I got mailman to work on the RaQ2. I just installed Python 1.5.2 from source of
the Python.org website. I just posted the instructions to the list. The error
went away after I installed the new version of Pyton.

    -Dennis

cain@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> did you get mailman working now ? I still don't get it working on my
> RAQ2... the python files are the latest release... any success with you ?
>
> Cain
>
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> This will solve the most problems:
> perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
>
> On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Dennis wrote:
>
> > Did you use the RPM files off the Cobalt FTP site to install Python? If so
> > I they are version 1.5.1 and I think the problem is that mailman wants
> > version 1.5.2 . Let me know if that solves the problem as I have not had
> > time to install 1.5.2 yet. You are going to have to download the tgz file
> > from python.org or see if someone has compiled RPMs for Python 1.5.2
> >
> > Let me know.
> >
> >      -Dennis
> >
> > cain@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > > Denis wrote :
> > > > Hello-
> > > >
> > > > I installed the mailman software (same Cobalt is using for this list)
> > > > and the installation when great. No errors.
> > > >
> > > > Then when I go to create a list via the script it comes up with this
> > > > error being a non-Linux guru it does not always make sense to me, but
> > > > hopefull it will to you.
> > > >
> > > > Here is the error message:
> > > >
> > > > Traceback (innermost last):
> > > >   File "/home/mailman/bin/newlist", line 146, in ?
> > > >     raise SystemExit(main(sys.argv))
> > > >   File "/home/mailman/bin/newlist", line 83, in main
> > > >     list_pw = getpass.getpass("Initial %s password: " % list_name)
> > > >   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/getpass.py", line 42, in getpass
> > > >     termios.tcsetattr(fd, TERMIOS.TCSADRAIN, old)
> > > > termios.error: (22, 'Invalid argument')
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > I have exact the same problem when i try to do a bin/newlist ??? Do you
> > > have any solution for this ? :-(
> > >
> > > Cain
> >