[Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman not responding....

[Michael Tokarev]

Jeff Shultz wrote:
> 
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> >At 9:32 AM -0700 2000/9/13, Jeff Shultz wrote:
> >
> >>  Okay, this is from my syslog:
> >>  Sep 12 23:12:54 taz automount[547]: attempting to mount entry
> >>  /misc/.directory
> >>  Sep 12 23:12:54 taz automount[3155]: lookup(file): looking up
> >>  .directory
> >>  Sep 12 23:12:54 taz automount[3155]: lookup for .directory failed
> >
> >       This is an automount problem, and not directly related to postfix
> >or mailman.
> >
> >       Try putting the lists on a different filesystem (which is not
> >automounted) or blowing away the automount system completely.
> >
> Okay, I blew away the automount process. That stopped those error
> messages. I also deleted and recreated /misc.
> 
> Now, instead of getting that error message... everything is going into
> the ether aka the bit bucket.
> 
> It looks like I've got everything set up correctly, but when I send
> stuff back through e-mail, postfix sends it onto the wrapper program...
> and nothing happens.
> 
> Internally to my network, the cgi stuff is working. The command line
> stuff will send out. But when I try and send stuff in... it vaporizes.

What software used when that problem occurs?  What other logs says?
What's your configuration?
Why, at the end, your mail delivery wanted to do something with /misc
automounted directory?!