[Mailman-Users] qrunner locks are not always removed

[Dan Wilder]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 10:49:08AM -0800, Harold Paulson wrote:
> 
> >Nov 15 21:51:02 2001 (5617) Could not acquire qrunner lock
> 
> This is probably normal behavior.  qrunner starts up from cron once a 
> minute.  If there is a lock file laying around, it knows that an 
> older qrunner is still active, and shuts itself down.
> 
> That being said, this message worried me too, and it's not the first 
> time I have seen this question asked.  Maybe we could get a 
> friendlier log message here?
> 
> Also, I recall older versions of Mailman having locking problems, 
> that ended up with a lot of stale locks laying around.

Any chance the lockfile might record, say, a PID, or some other
identifying information which would allow a new invocation of
qrunner to determine whether the lock is stale, and simply remove
it if so?  

If memory (forgettery?) serves, that's what UUCP (do I betray my age?) 
did.

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