[Mailman-Developers] Log file rollovers

[Richard Barrett]

On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 08:20  pm, Nadim Shaikli wrote:

> --- Brad Knowles wrote:
>> At 5:34 PM -0700 2003/10/09, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
>>
>>> Nothing looked out of place to me.  The file is being created
>>> correctly, I'm just surprised that mailman would even touch a
>>> non-existent as far asits concerned (mailman know not about
>>> post.1 and logrotate) unless the file-handler is kept in a
>>> constant open state by mailman or something.
>>
>> When the file is renamed, the inode number and internal file handle
>> do not change.  Mailman opens the file on start, and doesn't close it.
>> The file gets renamed, but this change is not relevant to mailman -- 
>> it
>> just keeps using the filehandle it's already got.  This is why you 
>> have
>> to use mailmanctl to stop and restart mailman.
>
> Well, if the statement "[MM] opens the file on start, and
> doesn't close it" is true, then it sounds very worrying.

Why?

> Shouldn't Mailman open/close upon prompting instead
> (ie. upon arrival of mail and/or when prompted for action) ?
>

Why?

> Is this a big deal to change/fix ?
>

Why change it?

> Regards,
>
>  - Nadim
>
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