[Mailman-Developers] What happens with mailman after a crash

Somuchfun somuchfun at atlantismail.com
Tue Jan 27 17:32:02 EST 2004


So what happens when the server is normally rebooted? Does mailman remember
where it stopped? Does it start all over again? Or is the mailing just gone?

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> python.org] On Behalf Of Brad Knowles
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 11:10 AM
> To: les at 2pi.org
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> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] What happens with mailman 
> after a crash
> 
> At 10:26 AM -0800 2004/01/27, Les Niles wrote:
> 
> >                   I've had to rebuild a couple of list config
> >  databases, and toss out a few corrupted pending pickles.  We plan
> >  to try the synchronous-write option, do backups (!), and maybe even
> >  replace the flakey hardware that's been causing the crashes.
> 
> 	You could also change the filesystem where the mailman queue 
> directory is located, so as to remove any asynchronous or delayed 
> writes that are used by the filesystem, above and beyond any mailman 
> SYNC_AFTER_WRITE feature that may or may not be enabled.  You could 
> alternatively run on a journaling filesystem, which should also help.
> 
> -- 
> Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>
> 
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
>      -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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