On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 07:48:45PM +0000, Michael Johnson wrote:
More importantly, how to prevent such things as future occurences. Certainly, manually checking and removing the lock may work on a per instance basis, but, in reality, it appears less than ideal. This problem happens way to frequently. Would changing the frequency depending the system of qrunner cron alleviate difficult locks? Is this a race condition issue with qrunner?
Unless you are having crashes (like a bad message crashing qrunner), in which case, it should show up in your mailman logs (~mailman/logs/), qrunner doesn't just casually die and leave a lock behind. At least, it doesn't on my sites.
Marc
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