Jerome, I sincerely appreciate your help with this. I am in a bit of a permissions quandary I think -- perhaps you can help me out. Using your code below, the following error was returned: .... File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 265, in MakeDirTree os.mkdir(made_part, perms) OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/mailman/lists/test' The code was trying to create the directory 'test' in the /home/mailman/lists/ directory. The 'list' directory has the following permissions and listing: drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4096 Jun 24 15:21 lists I added user zope to the mailman group, but this still had no effect. I guess I'm having a difficult time understanding why I can run this when logged in as "zope" from the shell, but not from the ZMI (where I have used a script to verify the username is 'zope'). Any additional ideas? Thanks, Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Jerome Alet [mailto:alet@librelogiciel.com] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 2:34 PM To: Kevin Carlson Cc: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] External script question On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 02:18:36PM -0400, Kevin Carlson wrote:
It is a rather long involved script, but here is the piece that is
failing.
I am trying to integrate with mailman and create a new list by using the following script:
nlcommand = "/home/mailman/bin/newlist -q test test@test.org test"
if(os.system(nlCommand)) : retval = "newlist command failed." return retval
IMHO you should carefully check the os.system() call's return value. you could replace the os.system() call with the following one which I know for sure works : def myexec(commandline) : import popen2 process = popen2.Popen3(commandline, capturestderr=1) retcode = process.wait() output = process.fromchild.read() errors = process.childerr.read() and check retcode according to the W* functions in http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/os-process.html#os-process of course depending on the retcode you may or may not have to read the child's stdout or stderr. hth. Jerome Alet