How do I kill a message in the middle of being distributed?
I just had someone post a few dozen 5mb files - since thats the list max size (not that anyone's ever sent even ONE of those before!) - and everything is clogged. I want to clear *everything* and just come up empty. I cant find this in the wiki.
Thanks!
-- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin_at_mfn.org 0xpgp_key_mgmt_is_broken-dont_bother
"Never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty."
Joseph Pulitzer 1907 Speech
J.A. Terranson wrote:
I just had someone post a few dozen 5mb files - since thats the list max size (not that anyone's ever sent even ONE of those before!) - and everything is clogged. I want to clear *everything* and just come up empty. I cant find this in the wiki.
Stop Mailman.
Look at Mailman's 'in' and 'out' queues. You can examine queue entries with bin/dumpdb or bin/show_qfiles, although you can probably identify the offenders by size if they are there.
Remove or move aside any offending queue entries and start Mailman.
But, I suspect the messages have long since been delivered to the MTA, and any removal will have to be done there. How to do that depends on your MTA.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Stop Mailman.
Done before I wrote. MTA down as well.
Look at Mailman's 'in' and 'out' queues.
# bin/show_qfiles ./qfiles/in ====================> ./qfiles/in Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/show_qfiles", line 95, in <module> main() File "bin/show_qfiles", line 81, in main fp = open(filename) IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory
-- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin_at_mfn.org 0xpgp_key_mgmt_is_broken-dont_bother
"Never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty."
Joseph Pulitzer 1907 Speech
J.A. Terranson wrote:
# bin/show_qfiles ./qfiles/in ====================> ./qfiles/in Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/show_qfiles", line 95, in <module> main() File "bin/show_qfiles", line 81, in main fp = open(filename) IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory
bin/show_qfiles takes file arguments, not directories. You could do
bin/show_qfiles ./qfiles/in/*
but it would probably be good to do
ls ./qfiles/in/
first to verify there are files there to show.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, J.A. Terranson wrote:
I realized the whats/wheres/hows before you could fix my deficiency :-)
only about 15% got out, but Im going to hear about it tomorrow :-(
Thanks, as always. You guys are really great!
//Alif
-- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin_at_mfn.org 0xpgp_key_mgmt_is_broken-dont_bother
"Never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty."
Joseph Pulitzer 1907 Speech
yOn Wed, 12 Aug 2009, J.A. Terranson wrote:
I realized the whats/wheres/hows before you could fix my deficiency :-)
only about 15% got out, but Im going to hear about it tomorrow :-(
Thanks, as always. You guys are really great!
//Alif
I have four lists, yet three of them are OK, thie first is giving errors, but not in the error file. Ideads> When I browse to it it sits *forever*, then said Opps, we had na error! Ichedked the error file, and nothing...
-- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin_at_mfn.org 0xpgp_key_mgmt_is_broken-dont_bother
"Never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty."
Joseph Pulitzer 1907 Speech
J.A. Terranson wrote:
I have four lists, yet three of them are OK, thie first is giving errors, but not in the error file. Ideads> When I browse to it it sits *forever*, then said Opps, we had na error! Ichedked the error file, and nothing...
Check for stale locks. See the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/noA9>.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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