At 4:23 PM -0400 2004-07-04, Bruce Embrey wrote:

I just upgraded Mailman from 2.1.1 to 2.1.5 through rpm. I checked the /var/mailman/logs directory and it is empty. I have been running Mailman for several months on this particular server so I would have expected to see something in there. How do I enable logging for Mailman? What types of things will it be logging?

Are you sure that the new version is configured to log data to 

the same filesystem/directory path?

The Mailman default location for this stuff is in 

/usr/local/mailman/logs, not /var/mailman/logs. So this is something that you'd need to confirm from your provider of binary packages.

On a server I've had running for a while, I have the following in 

/usr/local/mailman/logs:

% ls -la total 154 drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 May 6 23:22 . drwxrwsr-x 20 mailman mailman 512 Jun 28 14:57 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 2719 Jun 24 18:56 bounce -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 17922 Jun 29 03:58 error -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 1197 May 6 18:05 fromusenet -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 19231 Jul 1 11:49 post -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 11262 Jun 29 03:59 qrunner -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 65371 Jul 1 11:49 smtp -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 4562 Jun 16 14:52 subscribe -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 23592 Jun 29 04:00 vette

The "bounce" log has things like this:

% tail bounce May 26 04:41:35 2004 (40406) Processing 1 queued bounces May 31 06:31:54 2004 (40406) Processing 1 queued bounces Jun 07 17:04:56 2004 (40406) Processing 1 queued bounces Jun 07 17:19:57 2004 (40406) Processing 1 queued bounces Jun 07 17:19:57 2004 (40406) XXXXXXXXX: XXXXXXX@YYYYYYYYYYYY bounce score: 1.0 Jun 07 17:42:16 2004 (40406) Processing 1 queued bounces Jun 07 17:42:16 2004 (40406) XXXXXXXXX: XXXXXXX@YYYYYYYYYYYY already scored a bounce for date 07-Jun-2004 Jun 24 18:19:15 2004 (40406) Processing 1 queued bounces Jun 24 18:19:15 2004 (40406) XXXXXXXXX: ZZZZZZ@WWWWWWWWWWWW bounce score: 1.0 Jun 24 18:56:07 2004 (40406) Processing 1 queued bounces

The "error" log has things like this:

% tail error admin(88017): CONTENT_TYPE: application/x-www-form-urlencoded admin(88017): HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip,deflate admin(88017): UNIQUE_ID: U@j0CsyYuysAAUoq7LEAAAAD admin(88017): PATH_INFO: /announce May 06 17:30:53 2004 (88100) (NNTPDirect) socket error for list "test": (7, 'No address associated with hostname') May 21 12:33:53 2004 (76735) No such list "XXXXXX": May 21 12:34:01 2004 (76736) No such list "YYYYYY": Jun 29 03:58:46 2004 mailmanctl(28975): No child with pid: 40404 Jun 29 03:58:46 2004 mailmanctl(28975): [Errno 3] No such process Jun 29 03:58:46 2004 mailmanctl(28975): Stale pid file removed.

The "fromusenet" log looks like:

tail fromusenet May 07 00:55:00 2004 (56997) error opening connection to nntp_host: XXXX.YYY.ZZZ (7, 'No address associated with hostname') May 07 01:00:01 2004 (57066) test: [474531..475305] May 07 01:00:01 2004 (57066) test caught up to article 475305 May 07 01:00:01 2004 (57066) test watermark: 475305 May 07 01:05:01 2004 (57107) test: [474531..475307] May 07 01:05:01 2004 (57107) gating test articles [475306..475307] May 07 01:05:01 2004 (57107) posted to list test: 475306 May 07 01:05:01 2004 (57107) posted to list test: 475307 May 07 01:05:01 2004 (57107) test watermark: 475307

The "qrunner" log has things like:

% tail qrunner Jun 28 14:53:27 2004 (40404) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit (pid: 40405, sig: None, sts: 15, class: ArchRunner, slice: 1/1) Jun 29 03:58:54 2004 (28980) CommandRunner qrunner started. Jun 29 03:58:54 2004 (28981) IncomingRunner qrunner started. Jun 29 03:58:54 2004 (28978) ArchRunner qrunner started. Jun 29 03:58:54 2004 (28985) RetryRunner qrunner started. Jun 29 03:58:54 2004 (28979) BounceRunner qrunner started. Jun 29 03:58:54 2004 (28983) OutgoingRunner qrunner started. Jun 29 03:58:54 2004 (28984) VirginRunner qrunner started. Jun 29 03:58:54 2004 (28982) NewsRunner qrunner started.

The "post", "smtp", and "vette" logs will show things like 

message-ids, which can be linked to logs from your MTA, so that you can see mail flowing into the server and then back out again, etc....

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