[Mailman-Users] Cron <mailman at saturn> /usr/bin/python /home/mailman/cron/run_queue (fwd)

Pete Holsberg pjh at mccc.edu
Fri Dec 3 16:54:58 CET 1999


On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Todd Pfaff wrote:

> i had a similar problem recently and had to do:
> 
>   rm ~mailman/locks/\<site\>*
> 
> to fix things.
> 
> you may want to do an 'ls -l' of locks/\<site\>* first
> and see what the ownership and permissions are.  i would
> guess that they are owned and writeable by a user other
> than the mailman admin user or the web server user.
> 
> i think in my case, i had been mucking about in mailman
> as root and the files ended up as being only root
> writeable.


Here's the contents of locks:

saturn [pjh] 10:53:13 /home/mailman > ls -al locks
total 22
drwxrwxrwx   2 pjh      mailman      2048 Dec  3 10:53 .
drwxrwsr-x  17 mailman  mailman      1024 Nov 29 14:20 ..
-rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman        77 Dec  2 14:42 <site>.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman         0 Dec  2 14:25 ac.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman         0 Dec  2 14:25 account-list.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman         0 Dec  2 14:25 adj.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman         0 Dec  2 14:25 aoa.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman         0 Dec  2 14:25 aoadl.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman         0 Dec  2 14:25 aoagene.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman        76 Dec  2 15:30 ccnet.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 bin      mailman        82 Dec  3 05:08 dd.archiver.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman        73 Dec  3 05:08 dd.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman        75 Dec  2 14:41 dlsc.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman         0 Dec  2 14:25 eli97.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman         0 Dec  2 14:25 epo.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 bin      mailman        85 Dec  2 17:02 et124.archiver.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman        76 Dec  2 17:04 et124.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman         0 Dec  2 14:25 hiltonia.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman        77 Dec  2 15:01 impact.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman         0 Dec  2 14:25 itf.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman         0 Dec  2 14:25 jpc.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman         0 Dec  2 14:25 mcp.lock
-rw-rw-r--   2 mailman  mailman        82 Dec  3 07:12 mmqueue_run.lock
-rw-rw-r--   6 mailman  mailman        82 Dec  3 06:42 mmqueue_run.lock.saturn.mccc.edu.15071
-rw-rw-r--   6 mailman  mailman        82 Dec  3 06:42 mmqueue_run.lock.saturn.mccc.edu.15250
-rw-rw-r--   2 pjh      sys            82 Dec  3 06:42 mmqueue_run.lock.saturn.mccc.edu.15319
-rw-rw-r--   6 mailman  mailman        82 Dec  3 06:42 mmqueue_run.lock.saturn.mccc.edu.15527
-rw-rw-r--   6 mailman  mailman        82 Dec  3 06:42 mmqueue_run.lock.saturn.mccc.edu.15585
-rw-rw-r--   6 mailman  mailman        82 Dec  3 06:42 mmqueue_run.lock.saturn.mccc.edu.15681
-rw-rw-r--   6 mailman  mailman        82 Dec  3 06:42 mmqueue_run.lock.saturn.mccc.edu.15775
-rw-rw-r--   2 pjh      sys            82 Dec  3 06:42 mmqueue_run.lock.saturn.mccc.edu.15898
-rw-rw-r--   2 mailman  mailman        82 Dec  3 07:12 mmqueue_run.lock.saturn.mccc.edu.16350
-rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman         0 Dec  2 14:25 njccasst.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman         0 Dec  2 14:25 njccpres.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman         0 Dec  2 14:25 njcfs.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman         0 Dec  2 14:25 nynjpaeta.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman        74 Dec  2 16:52 tvc.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman         0 Dec  2 14:25 vision.lock

Note all the mqueue*saturn* ones. They were gen'd at the
time of those error messages. Shall I just leave them?

Thanks,
Pete





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