Greetings,
I have looked through the archives for something similar to my issue, and I noticed that by searching on "disk full", I get similar reports beginning in roughly July of 08.
As with these other reports, I have noticed *tremendous* disappearing space. When I tried to find the actual files, I was unsuccessful. Interestingly, if I stop mailman and then restart it, the "missing" space miraculously reappears!
So, now that the background is over with, here's where I find myself (besides just looking stupid):
(1) Yesterday I enabled VERP, and it appeared to be working well, At the time I turned on VERP, I had around 5gb of free space (which would take about two weeks to "disappear" before VERP). (2) Around 2pm today, the disk was full, and mailman died. (3) My inkling of something being wrong was this on the web interface:
"Bug in Mailman version 2.1.11rc2
We're sorry, we hit a bug!
Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. "
(4) Upon looking at the system in response to the above missive, I checked and saw the system ws out of space again. I did what I always do - shut down mailman (which usually drops ~5gb of "missing" space, and then restart it. Everything before today has come up roses doing this.
(5) There is nothing in any of the logs that indicate why this message is continuing to poke fun at me.
(6) I have looked through the various manuals, pdfs, etc, and cannot find anything about explicitly enabling logging so that I can get a better handle on this.
Oddly, as a mailman user since around 2001, this is the first real problem Ive had: Great platform!!! Mediocre admin though, and one begging for help as well.
All the best,
//Alif
-- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin_at_mfn.org 0xpgp_key_mgmt_is_broken-dont_bother