Dan Mick wrote:
What you're seeing is that the lock file timestamp is in the future, and that's by design; the file timestamp is used as the 'expiration time' to break stale locks. It's normal behavior. Do you think it's causing problems?
(This 'feature' of ls is not well known, but that's what it does for times in the future.)
that was what i thought (the future timestamp).
however on other installations of mailman i hadn't noticed this (although now that i look, all of the locks on the other machines are pretty old, so perhaps time caught up with them...).
in any event, i wasn't sure if this was the problem; however removing the locks generally fixes the problems (ie messages on the list won't appear and after removing the locks, they do).
in any event, i suspect either nfs problems or something weird with debian's installation.
also, some of the config files and all of the archive / mbox files are from an older installation of mailman, so it's possible that something's screwed up that way.
-- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . >