[Mailman-Users] Mailman not sending out mail

[Michelle Brownsworth]

Gentle friends,

I'm having a problem with Mailman 2.06, running on FreeBSD 
4.4-RELEASE.  It has been working perfectly up until now, serving 
three lists.  All of a sudden it won't send out mail posted to a 
list, although the wrapper receives it.  Here's the most recent post 
made by the moderator of the largest (1500) list:

Dec 25 20:41:05 straylight sendmail[48896]: fBQ4f4U48896: 
from=<FISH1IFR at aol.com
>, size=66192, class=0, nrcpts=1, 
>msgid=<f3.13c33a14.295aad85 at aol.com>, proto=ES
MTP, daemon=MTA, relay=imo-d05.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.37]
Dec 25 20:41:06 straylight sendmail[48897]: fBQ4f4U48896: 
to="|/usr/local/mailma
n/mail/wrapper post fishlink", 
ctladdr=<fishlink at straylight.primelogic.com> (1/0
), delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=prog, pri=95692, 
dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent

The cron jobs seem to be running every minute:

68546  ??  I      0:00.00 cron: running job (cron)
68550  ??  Is     0:00.01 /bin/sh -c /usr/local/bin/python -S 
/usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner
68554  ??  I      0:00.67 /usr/local/bin/python -S 
/usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner

But I'm getting this message in /usr/local/mailman/logs:

Dec 25 20:48:01 2001 (48945) Could not acquire qrunner lock
Dec 25 20:49:02 2001 (48948) Could not acquire qrunner lock
Dec 25 20:50:02 2001 (48956) Could not acquire qrunner lock
Dec 25 20:51:02 2001 (48960) Could not acquire qrunner lock
Dec 25 20:52:01 2001 (48968) Could not acquire qrunner lock
Dec 25 20:54:02 2001 (48977) Could not acquire qrunner lock
Dec 25 20:55:03 2001 (48986) Could not acquire qrunner lock

Lock files are being created:

/usr/local/mailman/locks# ls -al
total 4
drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman  mailman  512 Dec 26 12:07 .
drwxrwsr-x  18 mailman  mailman  512 Oct 31 14:55 ..
-rw-rw-r--   2 mailman  mailman   69 Dec 26 21:52 qrunner.lock
-rw-rw-r--   2 mailman  mailman   69 Dec 26 21:52 
qrunner.lock.straylight.primelogic.com.68866
/usr/local/mailman/locks# ls -al
total 4
drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman  mailman  512 Dec 26 12:46 .
drwxrwsr-x  18 mailman  mailman  512 Oct 31 14:55 ..
-rw-rw-r--   2 mailman  mailman   69 Dec 26 22:28 qrunner.lock
-rw-rw-r--   2 mailman  mailman   69 Dec 26 22:28 
qrunner.lock.straylight.primelogic.com.69414

Oddly, the times on the lockfiles are off, set in the future.  Here's 
the current time:

/usr/local/mailman/locks# date
Wed Dec 26 12:47:11 PST 2001

I removed the locks as a test but they were recreated with different 
numeric extensions.

/usr/local/mailman/logs/post has no entries corresponding to the post above.

Also, if the problem is solved the list owner will not want all three 
of his attempts to post to be delivered.  Is there a means to delete 
the last two attempts so his subscribers won't be spammed with the 
same newsletter?

Hope someone can shed some light, because I'm at a loss here.

.\\ichelle
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Michelle Brownsworth
System Administrator
PrimeLogic Corporation
http://www.primelogic.com