[baylisa] Reinstall python?

[David Alban]

Greetings!

I think I may need to (re-)install python and mailman to get mailman
working on a red hat 9 box.  Anyone think, based on the info below,
that this is not the case?  Should I use rpms?  Or would it be better
to "configure && make && make test && make install"?  

I inherited a brand new mailman installation on a red hat 9 box to
which I have access via ssh.  I have root on the box.

I'm trying to start mailman, and am getting:

  $ /etc/init.d/mailman start
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/var/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 524, in ?
      main()
    File "/var/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 319, in main
      check_privs()
    File "/var/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 274, in check_privs
      gid = grp.getgrnam(mm_cfg.MAILMAN_GROUP)[2]
  KeyError: getgrnam(): name not found

I get a similar error when running ~mailman/bin/check_perms:

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "bin/check_perms", line 51, in ?
      MAILMAN_GID = grp.getgrnam(MAILMAN_GROUP)[2]
  KeyError: getgrnam(): name not found

I found <http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg17390.html>,
which says:

  You can try for yourself by running Python from the command line as
  follows [...]

    [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mailman/run/bin> python
    Python 2.2.2 (#3, Feb 11 2003, 16:57:53)
    [GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)] on linux2
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
    information.
    >>> import paths
    >>> from Mailman import mm_cfg
    >>> from Mailman.mm_cfg import MAILMAN_USER, MAILMAN_GROUP
    >>> print MAILMAN_USER, MAILMAN_GROUP
    mailman mailman
    >>> import grp
    >>> MAILMAN_GID = grp.getgrnam(MAILMAN_GROUP)[2]
    >>> print MAILMAN_GID
    18
    >>> import sys
    >>> sys.exit()
    [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mailman/run/bin>

I try the above.  As soon as I type "import paths" and hit ENTER, I get:

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  ImportError: No module named paths

Umm...  At this point I (who have no experience with python) am
beginning to think there's something wrong with the python
installation.  Or is this a case analogous to when perl's @INC array
isn't set properly?

Thanks!
David
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