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.testing.documentation import cli
>>> command = cli('mailman.commands.cli_info.info')
>>> command('mailman info')
GNU Mailman 3...
Python ...
...
config file: .../test.cfg
db url: ...
REST root url: http://localhost:9001/3.1/
REST credentials: restadmin:restpass
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')
>>> command('mailman info -o ' + output_path)
>>> with open(output_path) as fp:
... print(fp.read())
GNU Mailman 3...
Python ...
...
config file: .../test.cfg
db url: ...
devmode: DISABLED
REST root url: http://localhost:9001/3.1/
REST credentials: restadmin:restpass
You can also get more verbose information, which contains a list of the file system paths that Mailman is using.
>>> config.create_paths = False
>>> config.push('fhs', """
... [mailman]
... layout: fhs
... """)
>>> ignore = cleanups.callback(config.pop, 'fhs')
>>> config.create_paths = True
The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard layout is the same everywhere by definition.
>>> command('mailman info --verbose')
GNU Mailman 3...
Python ...
...
File system paths:
ARCHIVE_DIR = /var/lib/mailman/archives
BIN_DIR = /sbin
CACHE_DIR = /var/lib/mailman/cache
CFG_FILE = .../test.cfg
DATA_DIR = /var/lib/mailman/data
ETC_DIR = /etc
LIST_DATA_DIR = /var/lib/mailman/lists
LOCK_DIR = /var/lock/mailman
LOCK_FILE = /var/lock/mailman/master.lck
LOG_DIR = /var/log/mailman
MESSAGES_DIR = /var/lib/mailman/messages
PID_FILE = /var/run/mailman/master.pid
QUEUE_DIR = /var/spool/mailman
TEMPLATE_DIR = .../mailman/templates
VAR_DIR = /var/lib/mailman