On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> wrote:
Xueshan Feng <sfeng@stanford.edu> wrote:
Can you do that (drop in files, or move the files out), while the service is running, without crashing service or losing data.
Probably yes, but don't.
Either OutgoingRunner has died (check Mailman's qrunner log) or your out queue is backlogged.
Yes the queue was backlogged because the outgoing smtp server it uses had a service outage. When the queue size climbed to a few thousands, even the smtp service was recovered, the process of the out queue was just really really slow going. (tail smtp log, post log).
If there is a bad message causing issues, it is in the one out queue entry with a .bak extension. If the queue is backlogged, messages will be processing. Check Mailman's smtp log and the archives of this list.
if I want to move quite a few *.bak aside (use timestamp as an indicator of how long they've been in that state), Is it necessary to stop the service, move files, then restart service? We have about 37,000 lists. Sometimes when I try to restart (/etc/init.d/mailman restart), OutgoingRunner won't go away, and had to be killed with -9.
So I was wondering by moving files out of the queue without first stopping mailman, caused the OutgoingRunner to suffer.
Thank you for your quick reply!
Xueshan
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
-- Xueshan Feng Infrastructure Delivery Group, IT Services Stanford University