Mailman 3 June 2004 - Mailman-Users

2.1.5 and htdig patches for 2.1.4
by Will Froning June 30, 2004

June 30, 2004

Does anyone know if the htdig patches for 2.1.4 will work on 2.1.5 (FreeBSD ports does this)? I ask because I tried and it's not liking me so much... This morning I upgraded both python2.2 and Mailman2.1.1 to 2.3.4 and 2.1.5, respectively. Mailman works like a charm, but htdig integration doesn't work. I tried the suggestions listed in http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2003-February/026845.html but it's doesn't make a difference. By not working one of 2 things happens. 1. Existing lists get "Unable to read configuration file", but the file is there and readable. 2. If I run bin/blow_away_htdig -c listname and rerun nightly_htdig it processes the files cleanly, but it creates a url of the form "https://lists.pacific.edu/mailman/private/testlist/%(htsearchcgi)s". Any hints? Thanks, Will -- Will Froning Unix Sys. Admin. (209)946-7470 (209)662-4725 wfroning(a)Pacific.EDU

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qrunner
by Michael Sullivan June 30, 2004

June 30, 2004

I issued the "service mailman restart" command to which it gave the the output: [root@bullet Mailman]# service mailman restart PID unreadable in: /var/mailman/data/master-qrunner.pid [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/mailman/data/master-qrunner.pid' Is qrunner even running? I ls'd /var/mailman/data and the only thing in there was sitelist.cfg I've encountered this error in my many previous unsucessful attempts to get mailman to work. How do I make qrunner run? I don't understand the option documentation...

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upgrading Panther Server basic install 2.1.2 to 2.1.5
by Thomas Waters June 30, 2004

June 30, 2004

We've been using Mailman with few problems for some time now on a G4/OS X 10.3.4, Mailman 2.1.2. The set up was done by a temp- a guy with UNIX experience that I lack, and he is off in Germany now. Trying to add some new lists, I'm getting a variety of errors, and decided that maybe it's time to get Mailman up to date. Maybe that would solve my errors. I've downloaded 2.1.5 and have read the FAQ, the Readme, and the Upgrading docs, but I'm still not sure about a few things: 1) there is nothing in the upgrading doc that specifically talks about 2.1.2 -> 2.1.5. So, is the info for 2.1.4 -> 2.1.5 sufficient? 2) On the Readme OS X- seems to speak to Jaquar and is out of date/ not applicable to 10.3.x? 3) In the Readme, under "create your first list" , the default location is listed as /usr/local/mailman. On my server, it is usr/share/mailman. Should that be changed? I don't have very many lists, and I'm need to delete all members and re-import list menmbers, so I'm happy to wipe it all clean and start from scratch if needed. 4) the dir, usr/share/mailman does not contain everything that I see in the 2.1.5 folder I downloaded. Thx, -- Thomas Waters Director of Information and Communication Services University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy 412-383-7471 rxweb+(a)pitt.edu http://www.pharmacy.pitt.edu

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Load-balancing Mailman in LVS cluster
by Guy Waugh June 30, 2004

June 30, 2004

Hi there, I'm a new user of Mailman, and a new subscriber to this list. I want to set up Mailman in a load-balanced fashion on two servers running within an LVS (linux virtual server) cluster. I want the two servers to act as the same Mailman instance. The two servers will mount an NFS shared directory from a third server, and the NFS mount will, I guess, contain the shared Mailman stuff. I've found a few things on the web about load-balancing Mailman, but not much. The following directories exist in $prefix/mailman: archives * bin cgi-bin cron data * icons lists * locks * logs mail Mailman * messages pythonlib qfiles scripts spam templates tests Can anybody suggest which of these directories should be NFS shared between the two servers? To me, it looks like good candidates would be those that I have marked with an * ... Further, is anyone running Mailman in a load-balanced fashion like this? Any hints/tricks/tips? Thanks in advance, Guy.

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Nailing Down High CPU
by Hunter Hillegas June 29, 2004

June 29, 2004

I am trying to pinpoint the high CPU utilization on my server when sending to a large announcement list (35,000 members). When we send out an email, the 'python2' process eats up 80-90% of the CPU time. Some info: Red Hat EL 2.1 on dual AMD. We ARE running a local caching nameserver. Mailman 2.1.5 Sendmail-8.11.6-28.72 (Red Hat supplied RPM) SMTP_MAC_RCPTS = 10 (is this a good value??? I have no idea.) QRUNNER_LOCK_LIFETIME = hours(20) QRUNNER_PROCESS_LIFETIME = minutes(120) QRUNNER_MAX_MESSAGES = 50000 To be honest, I don't really know what the impact of all of those settings are. The list is 'general purpose', in that users are subscribed from many domains, with a large bulk being AOL, MSN, Yahoo, and Hotmail. I've read through the FAQ entries 4.11 and 4.12. The latter went over our heads a bit. We are not running with full customization. If there is something seriously amiss with our configuration, please give me a shout! Thanks, Hunter

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Available : Current Clinical Topics in Infectious Diseases
by Steve Portigal June 29, 2004

June 29, 2004

She was posting titles alphabetically and had reached the letter C Kai Schaetzl wrote: >Steve Portigal wrote on Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:06:06 -0700: > >> She's only on C >> > >C ? > > >Kai > >-- > >Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany >Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com >IE-Center: http://ie5.de & http://msie.winware.org Steve Portigal http://www.portigal.com

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Available : Current Clinical Topics in Infectious Diseases
by dseguin＠ssss.gouv.qc.ca June 29, 2004

June 29, 2004

Current Clinical Topics in Infectious Diseases Vol. 10, 13, 14, 17 Disponible moyennant le remboursement en timbres. SVP faites parvenir vos demandes jusqu'au 7 juillet 2004. Available for postage reimbursement with stamps. Please send your request until July 7, 2004. Stéphanie Bourdeau Hôpital Santa Cabrini Ospedale Centre de documentation 5655 est, rue St-Zotique Montréal (Québec) H1T 1P7 téléphone: (514) 252-6488 télécopie: (514) 252-6432 dseguin(a)ssss.gouv.qc.ca

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Apologies
by dseguin＠ssss.gouv.qc.ca June 29, 2004

June 29, 2004

We are sorry for the inconvenience caused to your discussion group. We thought we were sending this out to North American medical libraries exchange group. Stéphanie

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spam from dseguin@ssss.gouv.qc.ca ???
by David Relson June 29, 2004

June 29, 2004

Hi, Is dseguin(a)ssss.gouv.qc.ca a legitimate subscriber? Any idea why the list is getting all this healthcare info? At best, it's significantly off-topic. David

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Available : Clinics in Laboratory Medicine
by dseguin＠ssss.gouv.qc.ca June 29, 2004

June 29, 2004

Clinics in Laboratory Medicine 1991; vol. 11, no 4 Disponible moyennant le remboursement en timbres. SVP faites parvenir vos demandes jusqu'au 7 juillet 2004. Available for postage reimbursement with stamps. Please send your request until July 7, 2004. Stéphanie Bourdeau Hôpital Santa Cabrini Ospedale Centre de documentation 5655 est, rue St-Zotique Montréal (Québec) H1T 1P7 téléphone: (514) 252-6488 télécopie: (514) 252-6432 dseguin(a)ssss.gouv.qc.ca

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