mailman.git/bin/mailmanctl, branch master

Remove some obsolete command line scripts:

2007-07-21T18:52:50Z

- bin/check_dbs because there are no more pickles - bin/convert because in MM3 everything will use $-strings and we'll do the conversion on import of the old list data - bin/mmshell because setuptools provides its own equivalent - bin/qrunner and bin/mailmanctl because the files were empty There are a bunch of scripts still left in bin/ which will eventually get removed. I'm leaving them for now because they're either helpers generally tangential to Mailman (msgfmt, po2template, pygettext, templ2pot, transcheck), or are using old interfaces that will go away soon (clone_member, convert, discard, fix_url, list_admins, remove_members, reset_pw, sync_members). Also moved bin/cleanarch into Mailman/bin/cleanarch.py and updated it to use optparse. Also added a small patch to genalias to standardize its help printing.

Massive conversion process so that Mailman can be run from a user specified

2006-07-08T17:37:55Z

configuration file. While the full conversion is not yet complete, everything that seems to be required to run mailmanctl, qrunner, rmlist, and newlist have been updated. Basically, modules should no longer import mm_cfg, but instead they should import Mailman.configuration.config. The latter is an object that's guaranteed to exist, but not guaranteed to be initialized until some top-level script calls config.load(). The latter should be called with the argument to -C/--config which is a new convention the above scripts have been given. In most cases, where mm_cfg. is used config. can be used, but the exceptions are where the default value must be available before config.load() is called. Sometimes you can import Mailman.Default and get the variable from there, but other times the code has to be changed to work around this limitation. Take each on a case-by-case basis. Note that the various directories calculated from VAR_PREFIX, EXEC_PREFIX, and PREFIX are now calculated in config.py, not in Defaults.py. This way a configuration file can override the base directories and everything should work correctly. Other changes here include: - mailmanctl, qrunner, and update are switched to optparse and $-strings, and changed to the mmshell architecture - An etc directory has been added to /usr/local/mailman and a mailman.cfg.sample file is installed there. Sites should now edit an etc/mailman.cfg file to do their configurations, although the mm_cfg file is still honored. The formats of the two files are identical. - list_lists is given the -C/--config option - Some coding style fixes in bin/update, but not extensive - Get rid of nested scope hacks in qrunner.py - A start on getting EmailBase tests working (specifically test_message), although not yet complete.

- Fixes to further remove the old Syslog from bin and cron scripts. Note that

2006-04-24T03:55:29Z

I didn't update cron/mailpasswds because that is going away. cron/disabled and cron/gate_news are only minimally tested. - Instead of using the RotatingFileHandler for our logs, use our own ReopenableFileHandler, which only minimally derives from FileHandler and implements a reopen() method. I think it's generally better to leave file rotation to external tools such as logrotate. - Remove some Python 2.1 compatibility stuff. - Ignore .mo files in messages/vi/LC_MESSAGES

Set default umask for qrunners to 007.

2006-02-05T04:45:31Z

back port from 2.1.6 / adding new files.

2005-08-28T05:41:46Z

FSF office has moved. chdcking in for MAIN branch.

2005-08-27T01:54:05Z

start_runner(): mm_cfg.PYTHON should be used in the execl() argv[0]

2003-05-15T15:12:22Z

slot, since argv[0] is used by the Python interpreter to define its library search paths. Depending on various and sundry environmental issues ($PATH, --prefix, --exec-prefix, etc.) it can still work fine, but this guarantees the right libraries will be found for the version of Python being used. Bug fix candidate.

check_for_site_list(), main(): Complain loudly and refuse to start if

2003-02-04T04:33:10Z

the site list doesn't exist.

Because of oddities in permissions, it is possible that when you run

2002-12-02T14:43:48Z

mailmanctl -u, you might not be able to completely delete a list through the web. This is because the archives are written with the group of the mailmanctl script, which can be changed if that's not root, but ttw list deletion will try to delete the archive as group mailman. If the users don't match (and they usually won't), permission crash. This just includes a warning and some helpful information in the docstring.

Jon Parise's patch to improve the usage() output for the command line

2002-10-21T22:36:58Z

and cron scripts. When code/status == 0, there's no error (it's likely --help output) so send that to stdout. Otherwise, it's an error and the output goes to stderr.