Getting information

You can get information about Mailman’s environment by using the command line script mailman info. By default, the info is printed to standard output.

>>> from mailman.commands.cli_info import Info
>>> command = Info()

>>> class FakeArgs:
...     output = None
...     verbose = None
>>> args = FakeArgs()

>>> command.process(args)
GNU Mailman 3...
Python ...
...
config file: .../test.cfg
db url: sqlite:.../mailman.db

By passing in the -o/--output option, you can print the info to a file.

>>> from mailman.config import config
>>> import os
>>> output_path = os.path.join(config.VAR_DIR, 'output.txt')
>>> args.output = output_path
>>> command.process(args)
>>> with open(output_path) as fp:
...     print fp.read()
GNU Mailman 3...
Python ...
...
config file: .../test.cfg
db url: sqlite:.../mailman.db

You can also get more verbose information, which contains a list of the file system paths that Mailman is using.

>>> args.output = None
>>> args.verbose = True
>>> config.create_paths = False
>>> config.push('fhs', """
... [mailman]
... layout: fhs
... """)
>>> config.create_paths = True

The File System Hierarchy layout is the same every by definition.

>>> command.process(args)
GNU Mailman 3...
Python ...
...
File system paths:
    BIN_DIR                  = /sbin
    CREATOR_PW_FILE          = /var/lib/mailman/data/creator.pw
    DATA_DIR                 = /var/lib/mailman/data
    ETC_DIR                  = /etc
    EXT_DIR                  = /etc/mailman.d
    LIST_DATA_DIR            = /var/lib/mailman/lists
    LOCK_DIR                 = /var/lock/mailman
    LOCK_FILE                = /var/lock/mailman/master-qrunner.lck
    LOG_DIR                  = /var/log/mailman
    MESSAGES_DIR             = /var/lib/mailman/messages
    PID_FILE                 = /var/run/mailman/master-qrunner.pid
    PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_FILE_DIR = /var/lib/mailman/archives/private
    PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_FILE_DIR  = /var/lib/mailman/archives/public
    QUEUE_DIR                = /var/spool/mailman
    SITE_PW_FILE             = /var/lib/mailman/data/adm.pw
    VAR_DIR                  = /var/lib/mailman

Clean up

>>> config.pop('fhs')

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