[Mailman-Developers] 2.1b2 error after reboot

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "LR" == Luigi Rosa <lrosa@mail.hypertrek.info> writes:

    LR> Hello, half an hour ago I suffered an unscheduled power
    LR> outage, when my Linux (RH 7.3) rebooted, I had to correct an
    LR> unlinked i-node in /tmp file system (apparently a .pid file).

    LR> The qrunner deamon did not start and reported this error: Jul
    LR> Then I did a

    LR>      # service mailman stop

    LR> and mailman logged this

    LR> Jul 24 16:35:27 2002 mailmanctl(1112): No child with pid:
    LR> 25776 Jul 24 16:35:27 2002 mailmanctl(1112): [Errno 3] No such
    LR> process Jul 24 16:35:27 2002 mailmanctl(1112): Stale pid file
    LR> removed.

    LR> after that I did a

    LR>      # service mailman start

    LR> and everything was Ok.

    LR> This could be a serious issue in case of unattended machines,
    LR> is there a solution for this error?

Sounds like you don't have things set up to restart on reboot
properly.  Did you follow the installation directions to chkconfig
--add the mailman script to the proper run levels?

-Barry