Problem description:
I can no longer subscribe to or send mail to my lists.
Here's some detail.
From the standpoint of being able to use the mailing lists (subscribe, post messages, etc), the lists had been working for several weeks. Then, spontaneously, all of the normal list server tasks quit working except for the web interface. Attempting to subscribe to a mailing list results in a page that says a "confirmation has been sent ...". But, I never receive that confirmation mail.
I have looked at all of the logs in /mailman/logs to see if I could see any references to my attempts to subscribe to the list. But, I do not. /var/log/messages does not show any references to Mailman either.
My mail server is Postfix. It seems to operate normally in every way.
Some possible clues:
I don't really have any strong suspicions that point to a particular culprit. I don't generally muck around with my server except to keep the installed software up to date via portupgrade. I don't really remember if the lists not working coorelates to running portupgrade. But, I don't think so.
Due to the fact that I own 2 domains and the domain name for the box is not the same domain name of the list I have created the lists for, there was a minor issue regarding the wrong URL showing up on the web interface portion of Mailman. It was showing the box domain name as opposed to the list domain name. The incorrect URL did not appear to have an adverse affect. But, it was potentially confusing for users. So, I made a few attempts to correct it by altering the mm_cfg.py file. In spite of some good suggestions here on the mailman-users list, I never resolved that problem. Again, I can't associate Mailman breaking with attempts to fix the URL problem.
What additional info can I give you to help you help me?
That's about all that I can think of to shed light on the problem. Not seeing anything in the log files, I don't really know how to backtrace the problem? Even though I don't feel like I broke it by editing the mm_cfg.py file or running portupgrade, I'm sure that I have somehow broken it.
Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
TIA, Darren
Read FAQ 3.14
It looks like either your cron daemon is not running (for Mailman versions 2.0.x and below) - or your mailmanctl daemon is not runing (for Mailman versions 2.1.x and above).
Jon Carnes
On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 10:29, backdoc wrote:
Problem description:
I can no longer subscribe to or send mail to my lists.
Here's some detail.
From the standpoint of being able to use the mailing lists (subscribe, post messages, etc), the lists had been working for several weeks. Then, spontaneously, all of the normal list server tasks quit working except for the web interface. Attempting to subscribe to a mailing list results in a page that says a "confirmation has been sent ...". But, I never receive that confirmation mail.
I have looked at all of the logs in /mailman/logs to see if I could see any references to my attempts to subscribe to the list. But, I do not. /var/log/messages does not show any references to Mailman either.
My mail server is Postfix. It seems to operate normally in every way.
Some possible clues:
I don't really have any strong suspicions that point to a particular culprit. I don't generally muck around with my server except to keep the installed software up to date via portupgrade. I don't really remember if the lists not working coorelates to running portupgrade. But, I don't think so.
Due to the fact that I own 2 domains and the domain name for the box is not the same domain name of the list I have created the lists for, there was a minor issue regarding the wrong URL showing up on the web interface portion of Mailman. It was showing the box domain name as opposed to the list domain name. The incorrect URL did not appear to have an adverse affect. But, it was potentially confusing for users. So, I made a few attempts to correct it by altering the mm_cfg.py file. In spite of some good suggestions here on the mailman-users list, I never resolved that problem. Again, I can't associate Mailman breaking with attempts to fix the URL problem.
What additional info can I give you to help you help me?
That's about all that I can think of to shed light on the problem. Not seeing anything in the log files, I don't really know how to backtrace the problem? Even though I don't feel like I broke it by editing the mm_cfg.py file or running portupgrade, I'm sure that I have somehow broken it.
Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
TIA, Darren
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Thank you very much for the help. The problem was that I didn't have a mailman mailing list and I needed to start the mailmanctl daemon.
I wasn't aware of these changes to Mailman.
I have a new question, though. Where should I put the "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/bin/mailmanctl start" command in FreeBSD so that it starts on boot?
TIA, Darren
Jon Carnes wrote:
Read FAQ 3.14
It looks like either your cron daemon is not running (for Mailman versions 2.0.x and below) - or your mailmanctl daemon is not runing (for Mailman versions 2.1.x and above).
Jon Carnes
On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 10:29, backdoc wrote:
Problem description:
I can no longer subscribe to or send mail to my lists.
Here's some detail.
From the standpoint of being able to use the mailing lists (subscribe, post messages, etc), the lists had been working for several weeks. Then, spontaneously, all of the normal list server tasks quit working except for the web interface. Attempting to subscribe to a mailing list results in a page that says a "confirmation has been sent ...". But, I never receive that confirmation mail.
I have looked at all of the logs in /mailman/logs to see if I could see any references to my attempts to subscribe to the list. But, I do not. /var/log/messages does not show any references to Mailman either.
My mail server is Postfix. It seems to operate normally in every way.
Some possible clues:
I don't really have any strong suspicions that point to a particular culprit. I don't generally muck around with my server except to keep the installed software up to date via portupgrade. I don't really remember if the lists not working coorelates to running portupgrade. But, I don't think so.
Due to the fact that I own 2 domains and the domain name for the box is not the same domain name of the list I have created the lists for, there was a minor issue regarding the wrong URL showing up on the web interface portion of Mailman. It was showing the box domain name as opposed to the list domain name. The incorrect URL did not appear to have an adverse affect. But, it was potentially confusing for users. So, I made a few attempts to correct it by altering the mm_cfg.py file. In spite of some good suggestions here on the mailman-users list, I never resolved that problem. Again, I can't associate Mailman breaking with attempts to fix the URL problem.
What additional info can I give you to help you help me?
That's about all that I can think of to shed light on the problem. Not seeing anything in the log files, I don't really know how to backtrace the problem? Even though I don't feel like I broke it by editing the mm_cfg.py file or running portupgrade, I'm sure that I have somehow broken it.
Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
TIA, Darren
Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
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You'll probably get a better response on a FreeBSD mailing list... but (from memory), the proper location for FreeBSD startup script is /usr/local/etc/rc.d/
If that doesn't work you might try: man rc.conf
Good Luck - Jon Carnes
On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 20:15, backdoc wrote:
Thank you very much for the help. The problem was that I didn't have a mailman mailing list and I needed to start the mailmanctl daemon.
I wasn't aware of these changes to Mailman.
I have a new question, though. Where should I put the "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/bin/mailmanctl start" command in FreeBSD so that it starts on boot?
TIA, Darren
Jon Carnes wrote:
Read FAQ 3.14
It looks like either your cron daemon is not running (for Mailman versions 2.0.x and below) - or your mailmanctl daemon is not runing (for Mailman versions 2.1.x and above).
Jon Carnes
On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 10:29, backdoc wrote:
Problem description:
I can no longer subscribe to or send mail to my lists.
Here's some detail.
From the standpoint of being able to use the mailing lists (subscribe, post messages, etc), the lists had been working for several weeks. Then, spontaneously, all of the normal list server tasks quit working except for the web interface. Attempting to subscribe to a mailing list results in a page that says a "confirmation has been sent ...". But, I never receive that confirmation mail.
I have looked at all of the logs in /mailman/logs to see if I could see any references to my attempts to subscribe to the list. But, I do not. /var/log/messages does not show any references to Mailman either.
My mail server is Postfix. It seems to operate normally in every way.
Some possible clues:
I don't really have any strong suspicions that point to a particular culprit. I don't generally muck around with my server except to keep the installed software up to date via portupgrade. I don't really remember if the lists not working coorelates to running portupgrade. But, I don't think so.
Due to the fact that I own 2 domains and the domain name for the box is not the same domain name of the list I have created the lists for, there was a minor issue regarding the wrong URL showing up on the web interface portion of Mailman. It was showing the box domain name as opposed to the list domain name. The incorrect URL did not appear to have an adverse affect. But, it was potentially confusing for users. So, I made a few attempts to correct it by altering the mm_cfg.py file. In spite of some good suggestions here on the mailman-users list, I never resolved that problem. Again, I can't associate Mailman breaking with attempts to fix the URL problem.
What additional info can I give you to help you help me?
That's about all that I can think of to shed light on the problem. Not seeing anything in the log files, I don't really know how to backtrace the problem? Even though I don't feel like I broke it by editing the mm_cfg.py file or running portupgrade, I'm sure that I have somehow broken it.
Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
TIA, Darren
Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
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Thanks again.
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/ was the correct place. There was already a mailman script there. I guess the problem was that I just didn't have a mailman mailing list.
Thanks for being so much help.
Darren
Jon Carnes wrote:
You'll probably get a better response on a FreeBSD mailing list... but (from memory), the proper location for FreeBSD startup script is /usr/local/etc/rc.d/
If that doesn't work you might try: man rc.conf
Good Luck - Jon Carnes
On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 20:15, backdoc wrote:
Thank you very much for the help. The problem was that I didn't have a mailman mailing list and I needed to start the mailmanctl daemon.
I wasn't aware of these changes to Mailman.
I have a new question, though. Where should I put the "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/bin/mailmanctl start" command in FreeBSD so that it starts on boot?
TIA, Darren
Jon Carnes wrote:
Read FAQ 3.14
It looks like either your cron daemon is not running (for Mailman versions 2.0.x and below) - or your mailmanctl daemon is not runing (for Mailman versions 2.1.x and above).
Jon Carnes
On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 10:29, backdoc wrote:
Problem description:
I can no longer subscribe to or send mail to my lists.
Here's some detail.
From the standpoint of being able to use the mailing lists (subscribe, post messages, etc), the lists had been working for several weeks. Then, spontaneously, all of the normal list server tasks quit working except for the web interface. Attempting to subscribe to a mailing list results in a page that says a "confirmation has been sent ...". But, I never receive that confirmation mail.
I have looked at all of the logs in /mailman/logs to see if I could see any references to my attempts to subscribe to the list. But, I do not. /var/log/messages does not show any references to Mailman either.
My mail server is Postfix. It seems to operate normally in every way.
Some possible clues:
I don't really have any strong suspicions that point to a particular culprit. I don't generally muck around with my server except to keep the installed software up to date via portupgrade. I don't really remember if the lists not working coorelates to running portupgrade. But, I don't think so.
Due to the fact that I own 2 domains and the domain name for the box is not the same domain name of the list I have created the lists for, there was a minor issue regarding the wrong URL showing up on the web interface portion of Mailman. It was showing the box domain name as opposed to the list domain name. The incorrect URL did not appear to have an adverse affect. But, it was potentially confusing for users. So, I made a few attempts to correct it by altering the mm_cfg.py file. In spite of some good suggestions here on the mailman-users list, I never resolved that problem. Again, I can't associate Mailman breaking with attempts to fix the URL problem.
What additional info can I give you to help you help me?
That's about all that I can think of to shed light on the problem. Not seeing anything in the log files, I don't really know how to backtrace the problem? Even though I don't feel like I broke it by editing the mm_cfg.py file or running portupgrade, I'm sure that I have somehow broken it.
Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
TIA, Darren
Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
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