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@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +Mailman - The GNU Mailing List Management System +Copyright (C) 1998 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. +59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA + +If from the web you get "document contains no data": +If mail isn't getting delivered: + + The cgi wrappers are failing. Either a UID is wrong, or your web + server / mailer has a non-standard name. + + If you're unsure about the proper settings, the cgi and mail + wrapper programs use syslog to register mismatches, indicating the + correct setting in the process. You need to have syslog running + and configured to log the mail.error log class somewhere - on Sun + systems, the line + + mail.debug /var/log/syslog + + causes the messages to go to them in /var/log/syslog, for example. + (The distributed syslog.conf forwards the message to the loghost, + when present. See the syslog man page for more details.) If your + system is set like this, if you get a failure trying to visit the + mailman/listinfo web page and it's due to a UID or GID mismatch, + then you should get an entry at the end of /var/log/syslog + identifying the expected and received values. + +If the web pages hang: + + CERN web servers might leave Python processes running, and in some + cases might hang the cgi completely. In that case, switch to + Apache. + +Check ~mailman/logs/error periodically: + + Many of the scripts have their stderr logged to + ~mailman/logs/error, and some of the modules write caught errors + there, as well, so you should check there at least occasionally to + look for bugs in the code and problems in your setup. + + One thing that is *not* caught by stderr hook is syntax errors! + However, most files can be run from the command line with no + effect. (The ones that will do stuff you want to avoid, like + sending out spurious password reminders, are in the cron dir.) So + you can and should use the Python interpreter to check the of any + changes before trying them out. + +Other debugging aids + + If you get exceptions in the log and/or Web pages, and these are + complaining that files could not be opened, you might like to see + which files Mailman is trying to open! In Python 1.5.2, this will + be a standard part of the exception message. In Python 1.5.1 the + best you can do is to comment out the code in + $prefix/scripts/driver where it is redefining the built-in open + function. This simulates what Python 1.5.2 will do when it raises + an IOError exception, however this only works for open(). While + this is the most common case, Python 1.5.2 will handle many other + cases where files are unsuccessfully referenced. + + +Local Variables: +indent-tabs-mode: nil +End: |