Re: [Mailman-Users] Hangs when trying to start mailman as root

2012-09-25 Thread Lummoxx
That's what I thought, seemed fairly straightforward, but thanks for the verification. Made that modification and mailman started right up. Verified by sending a couple messages, and this is all set. Thank you again for the help, I appreciate it! On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Mark Sapiro wr

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hangs when trying to start mailman as root

2012-09-25 Thread Mark Sapiro
Lummoxx wrote: > >That hangs just like trying to start mailman. Whatever it's doing, it's a >nasty little hang. A ctrl-c in the window won't even kill it. Here in >python or the mailmanctl file. > >Here's a thought. The server is also using libnss-pgsql. The mailman user >and group exist norma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hangs when trying to start mailman as root

2012-09-25 Thread Lummoxx
That hangs just like trying to start mailman. Whatever it's doing, it's a nasty little hang. A ctrl-c in the window won't even kill it. Here in python or the mailmanctl file. Here's a thought. The server is also using libnss-pgsql. The mailman user and group exist normally in /etc/passwd and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hangs when trying to start mailman as root

2012-09-25 Thread Mark Sapiro
Lummoxx wrote: > >Hi, thanks for the reply. > >[root@openge bin]# head mailmanctl >#! /usr/bin/python > >[root@openge bin]# which python >/usr/bin/python >[root@openge bin]# /usr/bin/python >Python 2.4.3 (#1, Jun 11 2009, 14:09:37) >[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)] on linux2 >Type "help", "c

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hangs when trying to start mailman as root

2012-09-25 Thread Lummoxx
Hi, thanks for the reply. [root@openge bin]# head mailmanctl #! /usr/bin/python [root@openge bin]# which python /usr/bin/python [root@openge bin]# /usr/bin/python Python 2.4.3 (#1, Jun 11 2009, 14:09:37) [GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "lic

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hangs when trying to start mailman as root

2012-09-24 Thread Mark Sapiro
Lummoxx wrote: >...hangs on the line >groups = [x[2] for x in grp.getgrall() if mm_cfg.MAILMAN_USER in x[3]] It appears that the Python library function grp.getgrall() is hanging or looping. What happens if as root you invoke the Python command in the shebang line of bin/mailmanctl and then do

[Mailman-Users] Hangs when trying to start mailman as root

2012-09-24 Thread Lummoxx
Regardless of method, "service mailman start", "./mailmanctl -s start", when I try to start mailman as root, it hangs. I modified the mailman user from the default of /sbin/nologin, to /bin/bash, so I could log in as mailman. When I'm logged in as mailman, it starts successfully. I did quite a b