[Mailman-Users] Mailman not sending out mail

[Richard Idalski]

Is anything showing up in mailman's error log? $prefix/mailman/logs/error.
There could be something there to shed some light on this.  As far as,
getting rid of the extra postings, if they're still floating around the
qfiles dir, just delete the corrosponding .msg, and .db files for the extra
posting... be sure to leave at least one set however so it does go out.


    -Richard Idalski

-----Original Message-----
From: mailman-users-admin at python.org
[mailto:mailman-users-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Michelle Brownsworth
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 4:02 PM
To: mailman-users at python.org
Subject: [Mailman-Users] Mailman not sending out mail


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

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