From 33ad4402b372695b9526f57c33dd8f05c0eeddb3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bwarsaw <>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 02:29:51 +0000
Subject: Backporting from the HEAD -- bin and cron scripts

---
 bin/mailmanctl | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'bin/mailmanctl')

diff --git a/bin/mailmanctl b/bin/mailmanctl
index 1243dbd4..4ebeb836 100644
--- a/bin/mailmanctl
+++ b/bin/mailmanctl
@@ -250,9 +250,10 @@ def start_runner(qrname, slice, count):
     #
     # Craft the command line arguments for the exec() call.
     rswitch = '--runner=%s:%d:%d' % (qrname, slice, count)
-    # BAW: should argv[0] be `python'?
     exe = os.path.join(mm_cfg.BIN_DIR, 'qrunner')
-    os.execl(mm_cfg.PYTHON, 'qrunner', exe, rswitch, '-s')
+    # mm_cfg.PYTHON, which is the absolute path to the Python interpreter,
+    # must be given as argv[0] due to Python's library search algorithm.
+    os.execl(mm_cfg.PYTHON, mm_cfg.PYTHON, exe, rswitch, '-s')
     # Should never get here
     raise RuntimeError, 'os.execl() failed'
 
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