I personally like the idea of locking the files more than I like the idea of a daemon delivering queued mail because there will always be the worry that something accidentally kills the daemon process while no admin is around.
Lock timeouts sound like a good solution and are already available in the file locking module.
scott
On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 09:38:30PM +0200, Dan Ohnesorg, admin of POWER wrote:
| On 25 Sep 98, at 16:16, The Dragon De Monsyne wrote:
|
| > On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Dan Ohnesorg, admin of POWER wrote:
| >
| > > I become sometimes irriting error messages cannot unlink....... by
| > > queue processing. So I sugest this modification of dequeue
| > > function
| > >
| > > def dequeueMessage(msg):
| > > import os
| > > try:
| > > os.unlink(msg)
| > > except:
| > > from Logging.StampedLogger import StampedLogger
| > > l = StampedLogger("queue", "DequeueMessage", immediate=1)
| > > l.write("Cannot remove:\t %s\n" % msg)
| > > l.flush()
| > >
| > > I currently dont know why this error happens, I still searching.
| >
| > Oh, I know why this happens. It's related to the duplicate
| > delivery problem. Another proccess has delivered the queued message out
| > from under the first one. (and deleted the queue file, which is why the
| > first process cannot delete the message. )
|
| Yes so it is probably done, but I think some messages, which are
| afected with this error aren't send duplicate.
|
|
| >
| > I've actually fixed this problem, by the simple expediant of
| > making all of the Mailman programs simply queue, and not try to deliver,
| > outgoing messages. Then I have a modified run_queue program that runs
| > continuously, de-queueing and delivering messages. Works great, sofar.
| > If anyone's interested in the diffs. let me know. (I mentioned
| > this whence I first did this, bout a month ago, but noone seemed
| > interested then. )
|
| Send me this, please, but I am working on another sugestion. I
| will made this: when one process begins with delivery, it makes
| lock file mm_l.1 and so on. Locked files are skipped by another
| processes. Sucessfull delivery removes both lock and data files,
| unsuccesfull only lock file.
| Danger on my solution is, that when mailman dies, the file is
| locked forever (or probalby I can delete lock files older than X
| from crond).
|
| Some opinion to this?
|
| cheers
| dan
|
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